Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The major provision of the bill is the limitation of discretion in the sentencing of convicted criminals. Indeterminate sentences would be abolished, possible sentence ranges would be narrowed, and a standard 10 per cent reduction of sentences for good behavior would be instituted.
Blumenthal estimates that almost 91% of all taxpayers will get a net reduction this year (correcting a figure of 96% that the President tossed out in his State of the Union speech). But in 1979, the Treasury Secretary figures, fewer than 83% of all taxpayers, those earning about $20,000...
Law-enforcement officials say the program is partially responsible for the slight reduction in big-city crime last year. Detroit reports a decline in major crime for the first six months of 1977: murder down 27%, burglary and armed robbery each down about 25%. New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick...
While prescription of the drug is illegal, researchers can, under strict controls, use marijuana experimentally, and recent evidence has confirmed what doctors thought over a century ago--that marijuana holds great promise for medical use. It has been found that THC can cause up to a 40 per cent reduction...
THC may also be useful in the treatment of asthma; inhalation of the drug dilates bronchial passages in the lungs. One problem with this treatment is that the smoke from marijuana cigarettes sometimes disturbs delicate lung tissue. For this reason, doctors are now considering the desirability of administering THC in...