Word: reductionism
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Largely ignored in recent years and stripped of critical funding as recently as July, the Nunn-Lugar Act, or "Cooperative Threat Reduction Program" has garnered public attention since the September 11th attacks. Once regarded as peripheral, the Nunn-Lugar now looks not only prescient but absolutely essential.
The bill was not unanimously approved, however. A significant number of legislators and labor advocates have criticized the bill for overlooking the needs of the 80,000 airline workers expected to be fired in the aftermath of the attacks. With most flights taking off at half-capacity and the major...
We come here and stay, as E.B. White wrote of New Yorkers after the last World War, because we're "willing to be lucky." We're game. And lately in this city, as crime has plummeted and Wall Street has flourished, it has been easy to forget that luck, like...
We forget it now, in the wake of victory (or what we used to think was victory) in the Gulf War, but Bush?s father?s speech in the fall of 1990 was flaccid by comparison. Delivered, eerily on 9/11/90, the speech was half about the coming Gulf War and...
We forget it now, in the wake of victory (or what we used to think was victory) in the Gulf War, but Bush?s father?s speech in the fall of 1990 was flaccid by comparison. Delivered, eerily on 9/11/90, the speech was half about the coming Gulf War and...