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  • If you have a weak stomach, allergies to dried locusts and can not drink human urine, the Reduction is not for you.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 20, 2006 2006

  • Reduction is supposed to inform us about proximate causes in the examined substrates.

    Creationism, defined 2006

  • Now, let's say that when the slow reduction of most unaccented vowels to short schwa was taking place i.e. the event I call Reduction immediately preceding Syncope, compensatory length *was already* being transferred to the previous vowel if accented.

    Szemerenyi's Law and Mid IE 2008

  • Now, let's say that when the slow reduction of most unaccented vowels to short schwa was taking place i.e. the event I call Reduction immediately preceding Syncope, compensatory length *was already* being transferred to the previous vowel if accented.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • ~ Tamoxifen Yields Long-term Reduction In Breast Cancer Risk -- Tamoxifen offers long-term benefits for breast cancer prevention among women at high risk of the disease, according to two randomized, blinded clinical trials in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

    Speedlinking 2/26/07 William Harryman 2007

  • First or the Second Order, so as to constitute a syllogism, is sometimes called Reduction; and for this a simple rule may be given: Take that term of the given premise which does not occur in the conclusion (and which must therefore be the Middle), and combine it with that term of the conclusion which does not occur in the given premise; the proposition thus formed is the premise which was requisite to complete the Syllogism.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • Similarly, the United Nations’ International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is a relatively low-level effort that should be elevated to a status comparable to that of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

    Breaking the Global-Warming Gridlock Daniel Sarewit 2000

  • Similarly, the United Nations’ International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is a relatively low-level effort that should be elevated to a status comparable to that of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

    Breaking the Global-Warming Gridlock Daniel Sarewit 2000

  • The 1% is using the super-secret Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction a.k.a. the Super Committee, to reach directly into the pockets of the 99% and steal hundreds of billions of dollars from them.

    Nancy Altman: Message to the 99%: Help Stop the 1% From Using the Super Committee to Rob the American People Nancy Altman 2011

  • The 1% is using the super-secret Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction a.k.a. the Super Committee, to reach directly into the pockets of the 99% and steal hundreds of billions of dollars from them.

    Nancy Altman: Message to the 99%: Help Stop the 1% From Using the Super Committee to Rob the American People Nancy Altman 2011

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