Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...logic is a little shaky--just because someone is available to be bribed doesn't mean you bribe them--but the facts seem unassailable. I.O.C. executive Marc Hodler, a Swiss lawyer who has lately been acting as the organization's conscience, alleged last month that five to eight of his colleagues had solicited bribes from potential host cities. Hodler then accused the previous winning cities of Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney of corruption--a charge officials in all three cities deny. (A leader of Anchorage's bid effort revealed to the Denver Post that in 1992 and 1994 his committee...
...came the sinus infections, muscle pain, nausea, dizziness and fatigue--"a whole body weakness." Others complained of weakness too, though no one seemed to know the cause. Ambulances occasionally arrived to treat people for breathing problems, fainting, seizures, even strokes. Her children were the first to notice when the logic in her sentences began breaking down. By 1992 Polansky was bedridden and on workmen's comp...
...view is that the A.P. exemption was a mistake from the start", Feldman said yesterday. "I think it was based on flawed logic...
...democracy, Chileans actually appear to be growing tired of the saga. "The military and a small number of right-wing protesters vented their frustration in tough talk following Britain's decision," says TIME reporter Elizabeth Love. "But there's no threat to democracy." After all, there would be little logic in the military again seizing power when the civilian government has already exhausted all diplomatic means of winning Pinochet's release...
Burnett moved the image to center stage. Visual eloquence, he was convinced, was far more persuasive, more poignant, than labored narratives, verbose logic or empty promises. Visuals appealed to the "basic emotions and primitive instincts" of consumers. Advertising does its best work, he argued in 1956, by impression, and he spent much of his career encouraging his staff to identify those symbols, those visual archetypes, that would leave consumers with a "brand picture engraved on their consciousness...