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These late scenes are over the top, as mean and reductive as editorials in a tabloid, and they nearly extinguish the moral subtlety of what's gone before.
The '50s begat Happy Days ; the '60s, The Wonder Years ; the '70s, That '70s Show ; and the '80s, Freaks and Geeks . In 20 years, the 1990s will be distilled into a set of reductive clichés and processed into a TV sitcom.
Stephen Chapman's response to Andrew Sullivan is riddled with reductive thinking and cheap rhetorical tricks.
Large deletions spanning multiple genes are possible only early in the reductive process, when many genes are nonessential.
Except for C. psittaci, we may be seeing different strains in varied states of reductive evolution with respect to what remnants of genes for tryptophan biosynthesis remain.