Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The current public discussion of acquaintance rape, a discussion which has as its goal the reduction of rape and the appropriate prosecution of those who rape, has produced as well the extraordinary characterization of date rape as an item on the "PC" agenda, and articles which take women and feminists...
The report brushed aside claims, many emanating from the White House, that reducing greenhouse emissions would be wildly expensive and a blow to economic growth. In February the Administration trotted out estimates that energy-tax increases of as much as $250 for each ton of removed gases would be needed...
The faction led by Darman and Sununu, however, could point with satisfaction to some parts of the study. For example, the commission declined to recommend explicit target dates or percentage goals for the reduction of CO2 emissions. Such steps, which have been taken by most European nations, are firmly opposed...
Bush has long advocated a reduction in the capital gains tax rate, now the same as for other income. However, a lower capital gains rate wouldn't have helped him personally in 1990.
You begin to recall the postwar revelation of the utter destruction of Iraq's cities and the deaths of 100,000 to 150,000 young men. You are chilled by the language used in the U.N. report describing the results of allied bombing: "near-apocalyptic" destruction of urban Iraq; the...