Word: logic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billion. Warning signs abound that this involves more than just collapsing Asian and Latin American markets. After years of low unemployment, a number of major U.S. companies have responded to their earnings troubles with year-end job cuts, among them Merrill Lynch (3,400), Raytheon (14,000), LSI Logic (1,200) and Atlantic Richfield (900). For all of 1998, firings could hit 625,000, their high point for the decade...
...when Schine returns to the cold, somewhat scientific pseudo-Darwinian logic that she falters. There is an insultingly blatant parallel between Darwin's theory of evolution and the evolution of Jane's friendships and identity. There is no mystery about this self-explanatory connection, but at last Schine introduces a secret family feud. However, the writing again makes any interest vanish. Throughout the novel, the rules of algebra and syllogism appear, "If A=(?) and B=(?), then all one has to prove is (?)." The logic is straightforward, giving the reader time for their own conclusions: if chapter 1=(heavy blinking...
...White House has pressured some in H.R.C. to resist backing D'Amato. One way out is to endorse both candidates. But the logic of endorsing D'Amato runs this way: If a gay organization doesn't encourage Republicans who stick their neck out, why should they bother? And if H.R.C. backs a supportive Republican, wouldn't that foster a new generation of G.O.P. leaders who would respond to the more moderate politics of the G.O.P.'s growing younger and suburban base? "That party is at war with itself, and its best decision makers are not at the top," says Birch...
...proposal is not that the registrar takeaway autonomy from the departments over theirspace," said Pearson Professor of ModernMathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren D.Goldfarb. "The database allows more efficient useof the classrooms without undermining autonomy...
Each year our council calls itself "a new council" or "an improved council" or "a reformed council," yet we still subscribe to the same faulty logic that has corrupted our efforts in the past. It is time for us to put this bad logic down. It is one thing for us to call ourselves reformed, and it is another thing for us to actually reform our approach. This year, more than any other, we must make good on all of our promises to avoid the mistakes of the past...