Word: reductionism
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Financial markets have had the wind at their backs for the last few years. Historically low interest rates, the economic rise of China, India, Russia and Brazil, and consistently strong corporate earnings made for heady increases in stock and commodities markets around the world. This has created the illusion that...
Chinese leaders worry that draconian sanctions such as cutting off food and fuel shipments could trigger the regime's collapse, bringing refugees, disease and economic and social disruption to China's northeast. Such fears are well founded, says Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. In 1994, China...
Alcan's environmental-health and safety program, EHS First, has resulted in a substantial reduction in injuries and illnesses, and improvements in our environmental footprint. We work with aboriginal peoples to provide training and employment in Australia and Canada and have a U.N.-recognized initiative in Cameroon, where we have...
Let me tell you what is interesting: when we put Renault and Nissan together, we took a lot of items and we said, OK, what can we do together on these particular lines, and at the end of the day, we discovered that after six years we did much more...
Kelso said his office began to look into e-resources, available for free to all undergraduates through Harvard’s library system, after the UC contacted him about putting course material online. In March, the UC passed a report advocating a reduction of coursepack costs through the use of...