Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ministry in Moscow. Since the Soviets have many more MIRVed ICBMs than does the U.S., Gorbachev's military advisers are likely to tell him that a prohibition on such weapons is a net disadvantage to them. Therefore, instead of merely accepting the U.S. proposal, the Soviets may carry the logic of Scowcroft's position a step further; they may say, If we're going to be truly serious about de-MIRVing, why stop at the water's edge? Why not ban MIRVs on submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) as well...
...Clinton wants to be President. How can a little-known pol from a small state make it against a popular President? For this expert hack, the answer follows the old if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em logic. Clinton figures he has to run as a moderate. Cut spending. Support the death penalty. Talk pro-business and anti-liberal. For conservative times, this is smart. Too bad it's bullshit...
...stage mother. Last week a Houston jury found the 37-year-old suburban housewife guilty of concocting a bizarre scheme to assure her daughter Shanna a place on the high school freshman cheerleading squad by killing the mother of her chief rival, Amber Heath. With flawed but cold-blooded logic, Holloway concluded that Amber would be too distraught over her mother's death to compete against Shanna for the coveted position...
...often, logic and good judgment are clouded by alcohol and drugs, so that disease prevention becomes far more difficult. "Most of the time I had sex with guys I was drunk," says a 23-year-old San Francisco woman who contracted HIV as a teenager. "I never thought a guy would care for me unless I slept with him. I was so uncomfortable with myself I had to be drunk...
Occasional cases involve outright judicial pique. California Superior Court Judge Bernard Kamins defied the logic of the state shield law, which bars judges from finding reporters in contempt for protecting a source, when Richard Serrano of the Los Angeles Times would not say how he got a secret report about the notorious videotaped police beating of Rodney King. In May, Kamins imposed a $1,500-a-day fine, later much reduced, claiming the punishment was not for contempt but for refusal to expose who violated Kamins' gag order...