Word: reductionism
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McCombe also said he felt Marshall's involvement with a later case that led to the reduction of the damages in the Harvard suit had been improper.
Debt Consolidation. Wanda Storey, a Miami paralegal, has just swung a $13,000, 9.5% home-equity loan. She used it to pay off $6,100 of credit-card borrowings on which she was being charged 22% interest, and a $6,900 loan at 18% for a vacation time share. Her...
Lewis' critics have responded that a genuine love of the House and its traditions, not blocking group size, creates House community. These critics are right, but all traditions are not created equal. It is worth asking which House traditions contribute to its community, and how House traditions inform the debate...
There's going to be a reaction against all this weight-reduction jazz, and ponderous will be the fashion. What better metal as an emblem for that new age than tungsten--the highest melting, the strongest, the ultimate heavy metal. --Roald Hoffmann, department of chemistry, Cornell
HEAR YE Removing a youngster's tonsils and adenoids for recurring ear infections is traumatic enough--and it may not do much good either. In most cases, the surgery results in just a slight reduction in the number of new infections--and only for the first year after the procedure...