Word: logical
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...phrases associated with the new age movement, that mystical, universalist philosophy that preaches, as the Soviet President does, of the need for "a new world order." As he said in California: "All mankind is entering a new age, and world trends are beginning to obey new laws and logic." More strikingly, he held a private meeting in Canada earlier in the week with one of the leading gurus of the new age movement, Sri Chinmoy, who read him a "spiritual song" and gave him a volume of admiring letters...
Even the move into risky area--which is still heralded by Cabot and other HMC insiders--has been attacked by several observers who question the logic of devoting resources to a field in which average returns have dropped significantly over the past years...
Fourth, the 1980s marked a major watershed in the history of the Soviet Union. The logic of life confronted us with the need for profound changes in the context of our socialist choice. Hence our perestroika. For our people, progress is inconceivable without the socialist idea. Hence also the powerful tendency toward democratic change here. Hence too the new thinking in foreign policy. Changes inside the U.S.S.R. have had a profound impact on world developments; there is a new international situation, with greater prospects for a period of peace in the development of civilization and vast opportunities for a better...
Fifth, after the Soviet Union, the democratic tide has swept other countries, especially those with closer ties to us. Naturally, developments took a different course in each of these countries. But they also had a common logic, with a dramatic increase in the social and political activity of citizens seeking to gain genuine control over their lives and the policies of their governments...
Federal officials now admit that the S&L disaster could cost $500 billion over the next 30 years. Still, insiders expect the Senate ethics committee, using * shamefully correct everybody-does-it logic, to go easy on the Keating Five -- the Senators who collected nearly $1.4 million in campaign donations from Charles Keating, of the bankrupt Lincoln Savings and Loan. Voters are likely to be harsher...