Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your integrity is everything in this business. And when you lose that, everything you've done is in question," a frazzled, enemic-looking Dressler told members of his lab at the height of the crisis. There is surely no logic to falsifying data, he kept saying, in order to "get published" in the prestige scientific journals, since the whole idea of such journals is to have other people repeat your presumably "successful" procedures and spread the wealth of knowledge...
...THERE is no logic to the Rosenfeld case in a framework of traditional values, that may be because the organization of scientific research and development in this country isn't exactly logical. Some Harvard administrators attributed his "ill logic" in the recommendations forgeries to the pressures of the pre-med syndrome; some of his friends chalked it up to a success-oriented family background; some of his teachers and fellow students in the Bio Labs, and even Rosenfeld himself, blamed the cumulative effect of spending endless hours in the laboratory and classroom...
...many people questioned the logic of the program. A homeowner in suburban Wilmington, Del., sarcastically observed: "I think it is a fine plan. I am going to put the refund in the bank and use it to pay the gas tax." The Wilmington Evening Journal criticized the plan as "somewhat circular. The ordinary taxpayer is apt to get a bit dizzy watching that circle revolve...
...Kremlin watchers are not so sure. British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz contends that any Brezhnev illness would be bound to touch off a power struggle in the Kremlin, if only because the Russians have never solved the problem of how to transfer authority in an orderly succession. According to this logic, competing factions in the Kremlin would try to exploit Brezhnev's physical weakness by pinning any recent policy failures on him as a pretext to seize power. Columbia University Political Scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, as well as many Moscow-based diplomats, speculate that the party chief has already come under...
...call to abolish the CIA is the kind of superficial hyperbolic bleating that unfortunately makes so much of Crimson editorial policy both outrageous and laughable. By Crimson logic we should abolish the Presidency because Nixon committed crimes against civil liberties...