Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As a former Navy helicopter pilot who had a long, safe career, I am incensed at the tragedy in which U.S. military planes shot down two friendly helicopters over Iraq's no-fly zone ((IRAQ, April 25)). I have many questions, but chief among them are, How can an interceptor...
"We do everything halfway...There may bestart-up costs, but in the final analysis, therewill be a reduction of costs later on," Bachrachsays. "It costs less to provide subsidized[employment] slots than to provide welfare."
Economically, the policy of revoking China's MFN would be deleterious both to the U.S. and to China. This policy would involve raising the average tariffs on Chinese goods by 5 to 10 times, which, according to a study by the World Bank, would reduce Chinese exports to the US...
Nixon ushered in the era of detente and more congenial superpower relations, which led successfully to strategic arms reduction. He re-established political and economic ties with China, providing a basis conducive to future economic and social agreement between the two states. On the domestic front, he introduced proposals for...
As the staff notes only cursorily, we owe Richard Nixon the detente of the '70s, which made the world a safer place in which to live and paved the way for a series of arms-reduction treaties between the United States and the former Soviet Union. We owe him relations...