Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this kind of round-about logic, the United States is now bombing Cambodia to protect the viability of the Thieu regime in South Vietnam. It is now bombing Laos and threatening to bomb North Vietnam to protect the viability of the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia. And one wonders what this will lead the United States to next when it claims that it will have to protect the viability of the Phouma regime in Laos...
...prodding of Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton and Copernicus' other intellectual heirs, questions of nature were thrust directly into the combative, public arena of empirical inquiry. For the first time, experiments became crucial. Theories were supported by close observation. The new scientific method, stressing reason and logic, was born. Individual scientists might still occasionally be wrong-sometimes outrageously so, as when Newton believed that the sun was inhabited. Yet it was the testing of such hypotheses, however farfetched, that caused a new intellectual excitement to sweep the Western world, a determination to explore, understand and dominate nature...
...even though the distinction is not dictated by economic rationality, it is not totally lacking in logic. The arbitrary decision to use capital gains for increasing the endowment is simply a handy device for deciding what part of the total earnings (capital gains and "income") should be kept in the endowment. There is a strong case for reinvesting a certain amount of the total earnings back into the endowment in order to insure that the endowment will increase enough to provide the University with money to pay for increasing costs due to inflation...
Student publications generally face difficult choices when confronting administrators with "unpleasant" information. The logic used against editors by regents and school officials is that since the state (i.e., the taxpayers) supports the publications through subsidies, the editors should be responsible to the administration...
...This logic, which serves mainly to retard students' development as even-handed journalists, often boils down to printing inoffensive material vis-a-vis the administration, or becoming an off-campus, independent publication. (The administrative catch phrase for deviant editors is "irresponsible.") For most college papers, though--indeed all but a scarce few -- the start-up costs of independent publication and the subscription revenue needed to sustain independence are prohibitive...