Word: reductionism
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The long-term recommendations outlined in the report are less specific. They include incorporating a theme or key message into orientation and expanding offerings for parents of freshmen. It also suggests a reduction in the amount of free time during the week.
If we don't make a big contribution to education, HIV/AIDS, the main killer diseases, building up a proper peacekeeping force, we won't reach the millennium development goals [targets for poverty reduction agreed to in 2000] or anywhere near. We want a doubling of aid, up to $25 billion...
In that context, it's not surprising that the idea behind BiDil--the first drug approved for a specific race--has been controversial from the start. The drug is actually a combination of two older, generic medicines. When it was first tested on the general population as a treatment for...
Soviet-American summitry is a relatively new and curious phenomenon in the annals of diplomacy. It focuses on arms control, which deals with a symptom rather than with the underlying cause of the hostility between the two nations. Traditionally, rulers or their envoys have met to discuss more fundamental issues...
Gorbachev's gambit of reading off a new set of Soviet ideas and proposals caught Reagan by surprise. In Geneva, Gorbachev had spoken off the cuff; by reading from a long paper this time, he gave the impression that he was following detailed guidelines worked out within the Politburo. At...