Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In your article "Sweet Risk?" [March 13], I found Bernard Cohen's calculations impressive-but not the suggestion that we can equate the cancer risk from using saccharin with an average reduction in life expectancy of two days.
In their own calculations, the Israelis must also consider whether to try to salvage the peace initiative while they have a man as unusual as Sadat to deal with. Jerusalem could continue with the obdurate Begin policy: make no real concessions, establish more settlements in the occupied territories and maintain...
Two events in 1975 set the aluminum executives on a new course, which has been better for the industry but more inflationary for the economy. The strategic stockpile, used by the Government to discipline the industry's efforts to increase prices, was virtually depleted. More important, the race to...
By suppressing the urge to expand, aluminum producers are now ensconced comfortably in a sellers' market. Capital expenditures are aimed mainly at such things as moneysaving computer controls and materials-handling equipment and the reduction of energy costs. In addition, the big companies are eagerly spending to install machinery...
> Robert Strauss, President Carter's chief trade negotiator, warned that the dollar's slide could jeopardize American efforts to achieve deep slashes in tariffs and a reduction in nontariff barriers to trade in talks now going on in Geneva.