Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once said something like "all money in the service of good is good," but he never explained exactly how far that logic extends. For example, would Bok sell his soul to the devil for a million dollar professorship...
...ahead, the steady march toward European unity is not about to grind to a halt. True, the 12 members are divided on some key issues, and a go-slow period may be in the offing. But that has happened before; no matter how alluring the vision or compelling the logic, the United States of Europe remains a distant goal that cannot be hurried even by its most enthusiastic supporters. In bad times as well as good, movement continues because the process has become irreversible...
...have kids, how glad can you be that the economy is not supporting the parents of their friends, or indeed of oneself? What gives me satisfaction is to see financial events move in a logic that I understand and advocate. I am frustrated not so much by being wrong as by seeing the Bakers and the Bradys and the Greenspans try to manipulate and buy orthodoxy on the cheap. So they are going to do something clever with the G-7, or they are going to pass a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. When I get the numbers wrong...
...allies' deliberations, has Saddam acceding to Bush's public demands. But the alliance's true objective has moved beyond restoring the status quo ante to the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological warfare capacities, a goal almost no one believes can be achieved through negotiation. Hence "the logic of war," to borrow Francois Mitterrand's phrase...
Heavy on symbolism and emotion--and devoid of logic--the poster represented what I have come to expect from the divestment movement on campus. Since I came to Harvard three years ago, fully sympathetic to the goal of expunging South-Africa related stocks from Harvard's investment portfolio, I have grown increasingly disillusioned with divestment activists who know exceedingly little and care even less about the probable consequences of further economic sanctions against South Africa...