Word: reductionism
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If so, the list of suspects is not short. Weinberger has acquired new critics within the Administration by opposing the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction proposal, which the President supports despite its provisions for cutting military spending. The Secretary's credibility on Capitol Hill has shrunk to the point where Senate...
Thursday's joint statement required intensive negotiation, yet it was little more than an enumeration of the lowest common denominators of the relationship. On arms control, it mostly reiterated earlier declarations of intent or endorsed vague goals that have already provoked dispute. The "principle" of a 50% reduction in nuclear...
The Gramm-Rudman Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Reduction Control Act is the best thing to happen in America since the Democrats started spending their way into office [NATION, Dec. 23]. There is no sane alternative. The country was headed for total bankruptcy. In five years, when the budget is...
Some American experts believe that the offense-defense trade-off would be a good deal: if the U.S. were less threatened by Soviet offenses, it would have less need for a massive network of orbiting battle stations to shield it from an attack. Many scientists question whether SDI will work...
What they might conceivably do, however, is sign an agreement that would trade away their license--and at least some of their wherewithal--to follow the Soviet pattern of behavior outside their borders. Elements of such a deal are at hand in the Contadora proposal, which calls for the reduction...