Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Commentators have judged Rosty's downfall to be possibly fatal for the health-reform plan. That seems exaggerated: Rostenkowski acknowledged that any final law would resemble whatever bill emerges from the Senate Finance . Committee more closely than the one Ways and Means is shaping. Still, Rosty's presence will be...
The outlook for Rosty may be even bleaker than the talk of a plea bargain , would indicate. The rumored charges seem difficult to construe as misdemeanors: embezzling from the House mailing office, abusing its stationery store to subsidize gifts for campaign workers and paying no-show workers in his Chicago...
Marie Willis became another victim of an alarming increase in domestic violence on America's military bases. The rise in abuse of spouses and children, researchers and the Pentagon believe, may be connected to the painful reduction in U.S. fighting forces following the end of the cold war. In 1986...
No budget item or entrenched interest group was spared Rendell's whittling, including the municipal unions. After a failed strike, the members accepted a 30-month pay freeze, cuts in health benefits and a reduction in time off that saved the city an estimated $93 million a year. An additional...
Since gaining independence in 1947, India's economy has generally been labeled socialist. Rao's reforms, which include privatization of many industries and reduction of tariffs, represent a new economic strategy for India.