Word: logical
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...would be a triumph of panic over economic logic. The snow and frost did not change estimates that Brazil's 1975-76 coffee crop will total 21 million bags, because they damaged only the future ability of coffee trees to bear berries, not the berries hanging on the trees now. Production will indeed drop during the following two crop years; it might be cut in half during 1976-77. Still, no major shortage looks likely. Brazil has reserves of 21 million bags that could be sold to keep exports close to normal levels over the next three years, until...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, said yesterday if Dube's report "had any logic in it," he will probably accept its recommendations...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, said yesterday if Dube's report "had any logic in it," he will probably accept its recommendations...
...from United Press International, Associated Press, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, ABC and NBC indicated that they were under orders from home to sign, if necessary, in order to stay on. However, most protested to Chief Censor Harry D'Penha. Replied D'Penha with Alice in Wonderland logic: "It's not witch hunting. We are trying to establish a basis of confidence...
...tirade would not be worth a moment's thought if it had come off a mimeograph machine in some dank cellar. Instead, The Camp of the Saints arrives trailing clouds of praise from French savants, including Dramatist Jean Anouilh ("A haunting book of ir resistible force and calm logic"), with the imprint of a respected U.S. publisher and a teasing pre-publication ad campaign ("The end of the white world is near"). Before the book is called "courageous" or "provocative," a small distinction should be made. The portrait of racial enmity is one matter. The exacerbation is quite another...