Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surrounded by several dozen Cambridge schoolchildren, Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton) called for a reduction of arms sales around the world as former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias looked on.
America's health-insurance revolution has reached adolescence. After more than a decade, managed-care plans--with their incentives for doctors to hold down treatment costs--cover about half the population. Fee-for-service plans--with their equally problematic incentives for doctors to provide too much costly treatment--continue to...
Verba said the committee supported the addition of a quantitative reasoning requirement and a reduction in the number of required fields.
Both sides agreed to speed up cutbacks in strategic nuclear weapons if the Russian parliament finally ratifies START II, the nuclear arms reduction treaty signed in 1993. Washington also pledges to support Russia's increased participation in major international economic organizations like the World Trade Organization and the Group of...
What about the 900 people euthanized without asking for it? Admits Van der Wal, "We don't like these cases, but we don't deny them either." The study found that about half the patients had earlier discussed euthanasia. Many were in great pain in the last days of life...