Word: logical
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...following this logic, voting in a national election is also empty symbolism, since the ballot of one person is unlikely to affect the results. It is a worn-out cliche that individual voices must be raised in order to produce a collective yell...
...think it would defy logic not to find there to be some variance in commitments," says Hoyte. "My sense is the overwhelming majority are very committed to having a more diverse faculty...
...Logic argues that, sooner or later, player salaries have to eclipse revenues for small-market clubs. In the past decade, baseball salaries have escalated nearly as fast as inflation in Russia. The going rate to re-sign superstars who anchor a franchise (Kirby Puckett with the Minnesota Twins, Cal Ripken with the Orioles) has doubled in the past two years, from $3 million to $6 million a season. Up until now, most owners have managed to keep ahead of their exploding payrolls thanks to ever rising franchise values, a threefold leap in marketing revenues, a 25% jump in ball-park...
...course, such logic is most unwelcome to MADD, a modern-day reincarnation of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. To them, the issue is a simple moral equation; alcohol is bad, and cracking down on it can't help but be good...
Section 158 is a giant shortcut. It bypasses constitutional process. It ignores the logic of citizens rights. It compromises for political expediency the very practical considerations that underlie it. The synthetic, misguided drinking age has turned out to be just another flawed legacy of the Reagan years...