Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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We're sure that many of you may think that we're heartless and lack compassion. But this reduction will hurt us more than it hurts you. Now, you'll have to adopt the Protestant work ethic that we cling to. This work ethic can help you rise to the...
Why the change? Democrats are looking at opinion polls that consistently show bipartisan majorities in favor of strong protections for the environment. In a recent TIME/CNN poll, 63% of those questioned opposed any reduction in protection for endangered species. Fifty-nine percent opposed the expansion of logging, mining or ranching...
Rotblat went back to England, and it was over the BBC that he heard the news of the bombing of Hiroshima. "I felt angry, worried and fearful about the future of our civilization," he recalled at a news conference last week. Rotblat refocused his scientific attention on possible medical uses...
A bachelor who lives with his sister-in-law, Rotblat maintains a schedule that begins at his rather cluttered office at about 6 a.m. every day. Important as the Pugwash organization is to him, it is only a part of his arms-reduction work. He is also on the governing...
Pieper says reducing inflationary payments by holding them to specific, targets, so-called market basket reduction, spreads the economic sacrifice evenly among all hospitals, but that this part of the Medicare reform legislation only accounts for 25 percent of the savings.