Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each of these examples runs somewhat contrary to general opinion about horseracing conditions and situations. And Picking Winners is loaded with more good stuff, like Beyer's change-of-pace theories, key-race handicapping and the use of the "logic of illogic" in picking high-priced winners...
Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger have no more or less logic in their pleas for hundreds of millions of dollars for more ammunition than the Government ever did. Their public case rests on the analysis of the Communist mind (the enemy will negotiate this time) and the long-range weather forecasts (the monsoons are coming). In truth, they simply cannot bring themselves to walk out of BAWS...
...hearing, Harvard was represented by three lawyers from Ropes and Gray, who argued, among other things, that a woman cannot possibly discriminate against a woman. The logic behind this argument is at best shakey. The MCAD is continuing its investigation into Ms. Sing's dismissal, indicating that the case is by no means concluded...
...copy of The Common Law, the book which earned him a Law School professorship. A collection of lectures originally delivered at Boston's Lowell Institute in 1880. The Common Law is now a classic legal text which contains the famous dictum. "The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience...
...trade in arms has been limited to conventional weapons, but that too may change. Denouncing the "monstrous logic" of his country's policy of exporting nearly any weapon to nearly any nation, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, publisher of L'Express and head of France's Radical Party, fears that the day is fast approaching when Paris will sell atomic arms. The U.S. has provided half a dozen nations with planes or missiles capable of delivering a nuclear punch, as have the Soviets...