Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A second-half slowdown would scarcely improve chances of significantly reducing the unemployment rate, now at 7.1%. If the economy grows no faster than 5%, the best Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal could offer last week was a reduction in joblessness to a still high 6.75% by the end of 1977...
Greater use of less-efficient labor, however, will slow growth. By the end of the century, Jorgenson forecasts, "there will be a reduction in gross national product of 10% below what it would have been" had the pre-OPEC balance between the costs of utilizing labor and capital continued.
¶ Eliminating from labels fuzzy and clinically dubious claims. That would mean manufacturers could no longer say their products relieve "fretfulness," "jumpy nerves," "cold symptoms" or being "under the weather." Instead, they would be limited to the assertions "for the temporary relief of occasional minor aches, pains and headache" and...
It is on the topics of defense and "neutrality" of the zone that American negotiators have scored their most notable breakthrough. Despite cries of Panamanian radicals for a total American pullout, the treaty calls for a gradual military reduction. The number of U.S. troops, now 9,000, presumably would decline...
According to most experts, the city's hospital system must be scaled back and better meshed with private institutions, which also get public money. Abzug says she is uncertain whether a large reduction in hospital beds is necessary.