Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At the same time, Ford wrung a promise from Democratic leaders to try to persuade rank-and-file congressional Democrats to separate a controversial provision repealing the oil depletion allowance from a $21.3 billion tax-reduction bill intended to stimulate the economy and help bring the recession to an end...
I would not contemplate nationalization of our rail system, because throughout the world where this has been done the result has been a reduction from a premier and highly regarded effort to second-class service. Nationalization is also too expensive.
So Holcombe got a three-day suspension, which after a hearing was later reduced to one day. But he is unwilling to accept any suspension at all, and hence sent his last paycheck back to Personnel because it included a pay reduction stemming from the suspension.
Reduction of Temperatures
Bulganin played a key role in softening the style of Kremlin leadership. As Premier, he launched "cocktail co-existence," giving numerous receptions for diplomats and journalists in Moscow at which he chatted affably and insisted that all the Soviet Union desired was a reduction of world tensions. Bulganin and Khrushchev...