Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laws of physics -- dictate that a large automobile will provide greater protection from injury in an accident than a smaller one. A crash test conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on a 3,900-lb. Ford Crown Victoria and a 1,900-lb. Subaru confirmed that logic. But Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, claims that smaller cars are nearly as safe when they are equipped with air bags and that tests proving this were ignored by the Federal Government. The group accuses the government of playing politics with the test results in order to defeat a Senate...
...that money would be so dissatisfying when it finally arrived. Yet instead of turning inward and saying, "I need a mid- course correction here," you get more of the same. They don't say, "If $200,000 didn't make me happy, why should $300,000?" It's bad logic. It's what I call well-intentioned self-destruction. Why not switch to more control of the organization, shaping lives in a positive way? Or switch to more free time? Instead, the secret account in the Bahamas becomes the challenge...
...this grand scheme, intellectual life is built on social life, and social life is built on biological life, but the logic of each level is independent of logic on the other levels...
...logic of these new contests spreads, there's no telling what awaits us. Soon we may find ourselves killing each other to win the Most Relaxed Student award, or holding betting pools for intramural games...
There is a certain logic and appeal to this injunction. Even if the would-be founding fathers of some would-be new countries harbor nuclear ambitions, they know perfectly well which republic will end up with the most warheads and launchers stationed on its territory: Russia. The Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Belorussians and the rest would prefer that all that megatonnage remain Gorbachev's responsibility rather than become the property of Boris Yeltsin...