Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think he would make a very conscientiousgovernor," says George O'Brien, editor of TheWestfield Evening News, the daily paper inPierce's district. "He would be for solutionsgrounded in logic, not politics...
...what exactly does "Western standards" mean? Here we come to complication No. 2. There is not a single Western standard, there are two: what we demand of Western countries at peace and what we demand of Western countries at war. It strains not just fairness but also logic to ask Israel, which has known only war for its 40 years' existence, to act like a Western country at peace...
...Receivers equipped with Dolby Surround sound can re-create the full atmospherics of the movie theater, from the scream of jets passing overhead to the seat-shaking rumble of helicopter gunships. To ensure that what the actors say actually comes out of their mouths, models with the Dolby Pro Logic feature isolate dialogue and pipe it to a speaker mounted directly below the TV screen...
Phone-company technicians traced the problem to a single "failure of logic" in the computer programs that route calls through the AT&T network. Like many programming bugs, it stemmed from an improvement on the original system. By carrying information about who is calling whom on a separate channel, or band, from the call signal itself, AT&T has been able to reduce the time between dialing and ringing from as much as 20 seconds to as little as four seconds. But the refinement inadvertently made the system more prone to breakdowns. Last week's glitch spread rapidly among...
...quickly decided not to worry about the academic logic of my semester abroad and to just enjoy the beauty of the rainforest and the incredible opportunity that I had. I was enjoying myself too much to really care whether I had made a mistake in coming...