Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dixy Lee Ray, Sc.D., Assistant Secretary of State. Not one to be awed into silent inactivity by the promises of pure technology, she has dealt with the implications of science with a calm logic and with consistent attention to its human role...
...Charles de Gaulle, computer logic was politically straightforward: France, he insisted, must develop a home-grown computer industry capable of competing with the American giants, particularly IBM. For nearly nine years the French government followed his Plan Calcul. Last week France abandoned its pursuit of that chimera and approved the merger of the Compagnie Internationale pour I'lnformatique, a 24% government-controlled computer company, with Honeywell Bull, the Paris-based subsidiary of the U.S. computer maker Honeywell...
...topic for comment. In chauvinist circles, women's imagination is usually spoken of as a charming commodity, fanciful and flighty, and lacking in rigor. The "woman's point of view" is considered to yield delightful and unexpected (because illogical) associations which form a fine complement to the more dependable logic of men. In feminist circles, the nature of the female imagination has been debated on more egalitarian grounds. There was a time when feminists regarded as counter-insurgent any effort to posit an imagination different from man's. More recently, however, women have come to note the distinction between nature...
...Ford ever should withdraw, perhaps because of the health of his wife, the Republican nomination would be up for grabs. Rockefeller would desperately need conservative support to win the honor for himself and to pursue his eternal dream of reaching the White House. Thus in any exigency, the cold logic of presidential politics dictates that Rockefeller must assuage the right-wingers who still see pink whenever they mention his name...
...festivities of 1969 are of particular interest to Mr. Garin. He is angered by Professor Lipset's perception that a forceful reaction was actually desired by those who occupied University Hall. And the Crimson reviewer again presents his own version of Professor Lipset's logic: "The outrage of students and sympathetic faculty to the Bust was predictable, Lipset claims, because a similar reaction followed Josiah Quincy's decision to call in police to restore order after the riots of 1834." But Professor Lipset offers this comparison only to show that Harvard's resistance in external authority is long standing...