Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...printer can't run AT&T, perhaps a defense contractor can. Using that logic, directors of the phone giant last week handed the top job to C. Michael Armstrong, 59, chairman of Hughes Electronics, ending one of the most embarrassing corporate head hunts in recent memory. The board tapped Armstrong three months after disconnecting AT&T president John Walter as the designated successor to the embattled Robert Allen, 62, who is stepping down as chairman and CEO. Directors said Walter, who was plucked from printer R.R. Donnelley & Sons last year, lacked the "intellectual leadership" to head the seventh largest...
...then, that those constituencies which seem so eager to accept the liberal logic have been among the primary beneficiaries of the Mayor's programs. Who benefits from the revitalization of Jamaica, Harlem, Astoria, Prospect Park and so many other neighborhoods? Who benefits from businesses and jobs returning to the City after decades of economic hemorrhaging? Who are the thousands of New Yorkers alive today who would have been dead had status quo remained in place? I guarantee that Donald Trump is not among them...
...Buddha posited no creator God; no Jehovah, Jesus or Allah. His Truths are so distinct from the primary concerns of other faiths that some Western observers see Buddhism as a philosophy or even a psychology. By the same logic, employed optimistically by Jewish, Protestant and Catholic Buddhists of the late 20th century, Buddhist practice can be maintained without leaving one's faith of birth...
Weill stands apart from an industry where oversize egos often overwhelm logic. His latest deal caps years of collecting castoff companies at fire-sale prices and then trimming costs by paying close attention to detail. He started in 1986 by taking over Commercial Credit, a reject of computer-maker Control Data. It was not the job he wanted--Weill had been given the bum's rush when he offered himself as CEO of BankAmerica--but a spruced-up Commercial Credit gave Weill a springboard. And he sprang: he merged Commercial Credit with struggling Primerica in 1988, getting the Smith Barney...
...research, though, it was only in 1970 that the British government, after countless centuries, decided that a pound sterling did not, in fact, consist of 20 shillings, each of which consisted in turn of 12 pence. Suddenly, the pound consisted of simply 100 pence--a system whose logic and simplicity must have struck the average English adult as positively disorienting...