Word: reductionism
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Sure it is. Because Americans consume 17 million bbl. of oil daily, dumping 12 million bbl. on the market may be spitting in the ocean. And the reserve will thus sell for $21 per bbl. oil that was purchased for $27. That's some kind of deficit reduction.
There is some evidence, in fact, that many people, women in particular, have "downshifted" in an effort to cope. Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, found in a national survey of 1,000 people last year that 28% of the respondents had made a voluntary life-style change that...
As with Konstantin's play, there's nothing wrong with the idea. In fact, it's fresh and unaffected, to coin a phrase. Alison Carey's analogy of a vineyard in Napa for a rural estate outside Moscow, and of Hollywood glitterati for Tsarist Russia's belle lettristes gives the...
In the U.S., the age-adjusted mortality rate is approximately 850 deaths per 100,000 people each year. The authors estimated that if the U.S. could achieve a modest reduction in the size of the income gap to make it comparable with the United Kingdom, overall death rates could be...
For the KCMSD, Missouri v. Jenkins portends a big reduction in the state's extraordinary desegregation payments. For court-ordered desegregation generally, the decision's implications could be dire. Says associate director of the naacp Legal Defense Fund Ted Shaw, who argued the Kansas City case before the high court...