Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This stripping down of both matter and manner may confuse or offend some of Lowell's admirers. But beyond the specific subjects of individual poems, the process of reduction is what Day by Day is about. This is a departure for Lowell, and the reasoning behind it is autobiographical...
He added that he thinks the research team has found "a real reduction in mortality."
But in return for those loans, the IMF prescribes the kind of medicine that most governments detest: reduction in public spending, targets for lower inflation rates, tightening of credit-in effect, a reduction in the standard of living. Witteveen, to be sure, denies that the IMF imposes its will on...
Although Carter rehabilitated the term detente, which Ford had tried to expunge, U.S.-Soviet relations are at their lowest point in years. The SALT stalemate results, in part, from military advances, such as America's development of the cruise missile and the Soviets' deployment of the Backfire bomber and SS...
Beyond all this high-level and often informal chatter, there is a formal policy machinery that is also put to full use. Under Vance, the State Department bureaucracy is far more a part of the action than it was under either Secretary of State William Rogers or Kissinger. Vance asks...