Word: logic
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...shaped his vision and gave him the confidence to begin a crusade that may bring down the walls between Turkey and Greece erected by a history of imperialism and cultural egoism. These divisions, once made, eventually took on a life of their own through political institutionalization and self-fulfilling logic. It is a shame that it took the loss of over 10,000 lives to break a gridlock that existed not between the people but the institutions of Ankara and Athens. As Papandreou pointed out, the people in the two countries were similar; it was their governments that were keeping...
...film has its own logic: Incidents turn on luck and silly circumstances, and in the back of your mind you suspect they couldn't have really happened. The train escapes several close calls because of a German uniform hastily tailored to a higher rank, or by the outrageous claim that their train is special because it is deporting extra-dangerous communist Jews. These are examples of the whimsical and creative view Train of Life takes on practically every aspect of the shtetl's endeavor...
When a team returns all five starters from the year before, logic dictates that the team should be as good or better than the year before. Unfortunately for the Big Red (11-15, 5-9, t-6th), that means improving on last year's record and joining the league's top teams, which does not seem likely...
...applied the logic that higher tuition means higher earnings, then every college would raise its tuition by $100,000 to improve its standards," Samuelson said...
...Young Universe theory has not, and will not, undergo the trying scientific scrutiny that evolution has been subjected to for years, largely because its proponents understand that it would fail to pass a test of logic and the scientific method. Whereas evolution has years of documented research proving convincingly that it is a valid theory, there is no scientific evidence to support creationism and little to support the "Young Universe" theory. Instead, the changes in educational standards instituted by the Board will have long-term detrimental effects on the quality of education in Kansas public schools and will only harm...