Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision, the First Circuit Court ofAppeals upheld this logic, also saying diversityshould not be limited to race...
...verbal stiletto, and Bob Barr, the humorless but relentless Republican former prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee includes some of the most ideological members of each party, politicians more likely to go for the jugular than the essence of a witness's arguments. Starr will have to defend the logic and fairness of his actions in a place where judicial precedents don't count for much. And there will be few rules of decorum to keep lawmakers from cutting him off or shouting him down...
...found out five times in six years--she wanted to do right by her baby. So she told her tricks she'd give them oral sex only. "I really hoped nobody would have rough sex with me that would hurt the baby," she says. That sort of logic kept Moody working the mean streets and alleys of Chicago's South Side for 13 years...
...book only drags in places where Bennahum describes the technical logic behind his beloved computers. While interesting, most of the information would go right over the heads of people unacquainted with the machines. Additionally, while information about his family and home life is plentiful early on in the book, later appearances are sporadic, and sometimes seem out of place in the flow of the story. His earlier years through high school are explained in great detail, and the book seems to hurry to a conclusion, glossing over college and his years after graduation...
...concert with the fact that we all happen to have been "received" by Earth, to conclude that, "It is very likely that, as galactic civilizations go, we are on the above-average development level, and possibly way up there among the most advanced." But even using Aczel's own logic, we have no idea how many people have been "received" by other civilizations, so we don't know whether we just happen to be the equivalent of the few lucky people who arrive at the stop in the short interval between buses...