Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people"? The law of the free marketplace, says Smith, by which even greed is predestined to do good. That is because it is based on everyone's self-interest, which he defines as "the uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition." His logic runs like this...
...Mullens had the courage to make the juxtapositions and draw the necessary conclusions: they refused to take refuge in the warmth of Westmoreland's logic. That core of patriotism that exists in the heart of even the most hardened and bitter radicals did not prevent them from acknowledging that the war served no purpose, that Michael's death was not invested with the meaning concocted for it by comfortable liars in Washington. It is a hard and bitter truth, but the Mullens both accepted it--and acted upon it to save others from Michael's fate...
...answer for the larger mystery the Mullens faced. Implicit in Friendly Fire is the understanding that Vietnam was more than a tragic mistake, an error in the limited sense that the shell which exploded in the trees above Hill 76 and killed Michael Mullen was an error. It defies logic to believe that the long years of blood and napalm were merely a tragic series of mistakes dizzily succeeding each other. Men, powerful, arrogant and lying men, plucked Michael Mullen out of graduate school and put him on Hill 76. The piece of shrapnel which snuffed out his life...
Little Difference. Although Blackmun specifically declined to consider the decision's effect on other professions, the logic of the court's decision offers hope to consumer groups that have long been attacking the advertising bans in the legal and medical professions. Indeed, the sole dissenter from the decision, William Rehnquist, saw little difference between the public's right to know in advance the prices of drugs-and thus be able to shop for them-and its right to know the prices of legal, medical or other professional services for which standardized fees are charged...
...capable of taking more benign forms. Beyond that, many of Commoner's "facts" are dubious. Capital does not seem to be unavailable and corporate profits, while they have not kept up with inflation, show little sign of drying up either. In other words, the author's logic is far less airtight than it seems. Commoner is a much better gadfly than economist. Philip Herrera