abatement

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Mediation tends to produce short-term crisis abatement at the cost of long-term stability because agreements reached under third-party pressure often fail to resolve the underlying conditions responsible for conflict in the first place.

From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026

City officials even offered the warehouse owner, Dalfen Industrial, 10 years’ worth of tax abatement, totaling about $20 million, if they agreed not to sell their warehouse to DHS.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026

“Once you have a carbon price into the mid-teens, and certainly into the twenties, that’s a very healthy level. You can drive a lot of abatement with a carbon price at those levels.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

The two-year program prepares graduates for careers in a variety of fields, from zookeeping to Hollywood animal training, wildlife conservation and even pest abatement.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

The Department of Health and Human Services launched an investigation and concluded that the study’s consent forms “failed to provide an adequate description” of the different levels of lead abatement in the homes.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot