Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given that third-and-three situation, two running plays would have seemed the logical strategy, but when you're dealing with multiflexes and the Ivy League, logic doesn't prevail...
...dozen delightful children's books. To illustrate, Lionni has literalized Marianne Moore's "imaginary gardens with real toads in them"-and then removed the toads. What remains is a series of never-were "parallel plants," a vegetable kingdom with members rooted beyond the fences of nature and logic...
Jimmy Carter understands that he will need all the help he can get to win the war against expense account dining. His experience is limited: almost everybody in his time in Plains ate lunch at home. Equally grave, his logic is dubious. By the National Restaurant Association's reckoning, deductible dining accounts for only about 5% of all purchased meals. The N.R.A. calculates that diners on expense accounts order soft drinks more than twice as often as cocktails, which means that Carter is hacking away at Coke and Dr Pepper, commodities that float the state of Georgia...
None of the new immigrants, however, are as likely to succeed as the more farsighted speculators who are willing to bet on a black-inspired boom to come. The logic is fairly simple: if there is a peaceful transition to nationalist government, then the country's long economic drought under United Nations' sanctions will come abruptly to an end. Real estate, agriculture, tobacco, mining, even tourism-all should experience a quick revival. Companies from Stuttgart to Nagasaki have been sending semisecret scouting missions to Salisbury. "Zimbabwe is going to be the biggest boom country you've ever...
...seen a couple of wars, prison, and all the rest that brings with it, and you have to determine for yourself whether the whole thing adds up to anything--whether the universe is a medley of lunatics and atoms or whether there might be some reason and logic somewhere...