Word: reductionism
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Since this is the case, an actual reduction of operating costs is the only practicable solution. At present the greatest single item of expense is the insurance. If some scheme were devised whereby the government could provide insurance at a low rate, as was done for the army during the...
Supposing that a complete reduction of armaments--land as well as naval--were possible, would that mean that we had made an end of war? The answer is in the negative. In the first place we have but to look back on the recent war to see that science has...
In answer, then, to the question of the National Council: success at the Washington Conference demands, of course, a reduction of armaments as complete as possible; and as complete as possible agreement and compromise among the nattions on conflicting policies. But such reduction and compromise will amount to nothing unless...
Let me take an analogy for illustration: Suppose, here in Cambridge there is a workingman's family, whose income, by the reduction of wages or for other reasons, has been cut by 30 percent of its former total; we may say, for argument's sake, that the said family will...
The Washington Conference was called primarily to limit naval armaments, and thereby to reduce the present burden of taxation. Any discussion of the Far Eastern question was to be relevant only in so far as it affected this problem. Many people felt, however, that the Conference was really called to...