Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hints of Oedipus -- in which the characters are music teachers or pupils and hell is interwoven with high school. The sound, too, (by a string quartet, piano and two bassoons) - hovers between melodic-traditional and staccato-modern. Kirsten Sanderson's witty staging deftly evokes dreams -- their fleeting lyricism, transposed logic, sexual ambiguity and poignant blend of chagrin and nostalgia...
Even some of the deficit hawks among Clinton's advisers concede the political logic of early deficit spending. It would be politically foolish, says an aide, to "start our Administration on a negative note" by not only raising taxes on the rich but also cutting spending on popular middle-class subsidies and "creating a lot of enemies...
...difficulty of controlling leaks from within the Clinton camp is that some of them are apparently coming from the putative nominees themselves. The logic behind this gambit is to lock in one's selection with the press before the President-elect has a chance to reconsider. Clinton advisers contrast the alacrity with which Bill Bradley took his name out of the vice-presidential race last summer with the New Jersey Senator's palpable eagerness to be considered for Secretary of State. Another proven reputation-enhancement tactic is to float your own name for a job for which...
...Philosophy Department, for example, students who want to fulfill the deductive logic requirement can only do so during the fall at 10 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays...
Cumbersome, inefficient and corrupt, the Soviet economy functioned, such as it did, because it had its own internal logic. Moscow decreed the production of every tank, shoe and potato; every working-age person was supposed to have a job; and prices were stable. If the end result was not exactly according to plan -- a long-drawn-out failure, in fact -- at least the command system offered a coherent vision of what the plan...