Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lear has staved off every major threat with a combination of logic, persuasion, threats to cancel a whole episode (or the whole series), and scathing contempt for the censors' "thinktank mentality," his term for the corporate and governmental attitude that underestimates "how wise-heart a great many Americans...
...Treasury Department remains magnificently unimpressed by that logic. "We have determined that the purchase of a gold futures contract is the same as a purchase of gold itself," says Thomas W. Wolfe, director of the Office of Domestic Gold and Silver Operations. "It would certainly be an illegal activity for the 99.9% of us who have no Government authorization to deal in gold." Traditionally, the Government has feared that any form of U.S. ownership of monetary gold might lead to an alternative-and possibly preferred-form of tender, thus weakening the dollar. The threatened gold war between investors...
INVERTING Herrnstein's logic, SDS concluded that he was saying that current poorer classes are intellectually deficient, and thus the group equated Herrnstein with Berkeley geneticist Arthur Jensen and Stanford engineer William Shockley who say outright that blacks are the intellectual inferiors of whites. The clear implication in Herrnstein's article, SDS said, is that blacks must remain poor because they are genetically inferior...
...those who did take the exams, 93% passed. Among them were David Munro, 35, a postal worker who pursued science studies "between putting two children to bed and having a quick pint," and Steelworker Colin O'Leary, 37, who jokes that after studying the philosophy of logic, "I can now win arguments...
...inherent logic to keeping separate admissions committees in the long run," he said...