Word: logical
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With the new scientific evidence to bolster it, the logic for spending money on early-childhood development programs may seem incontrovertible. But not everyone is convinced. The question of what approaches have worked and will work has not been resolved. Research supports the long-term benefits of older programs that are used as models today, but those studies are criticized because they look at very small samples of children who were given special attention and care...
...Cult of Moral Grayness," Rand deconstructs the logic of those who assert life is more gray than black and white: "If there is no black and white, there can be no gray--since gray is merely a mixture of the two." How perfectly poetic! How superbly simplistic! (Rand must have been exempt from Lit. & Arts A.) Try mixing yellow, blue and red, my dear...
...blood, not a visual, relation. And had lost him not to a plot turn but to a bullet. Still, the whole thing didn't quite compute for me. Gunfire was never a part of The Cosby Show. Roadside homicide didn't figure in. According to the same dramatic logic that ruled out rape on Gilligan's Island and domestic violence among the Brady Bunch, murder on Cosby just wasn't possible...
...remarkably consistent. Rule 1, says labor consultant Malcom Cohen, is become computer literate. And right alongside it, he says, is learn to communicate well through writing and speaking. Notes Audrey Freedman, an economist who specializes in labor issues: "Students should take the toughest courses they can to develop their logic and reasoning capacity." Essential too, she concurs, is expressing oneself "clearly and persuasively." Above all, in a job world where change is the only constant, the most valuable skill for the young--and their elders--is the ability to keep on learning. (For more on training, see following story...
...should therefore be leading the charge toward comprehensive training on the job. "Since better-trained workers are usually more productive, markets should provide all the incentives" for companies to make economically efficient training decisions, says Shapiro. Unfortunately, in the real world, businesses invest less in training their workers than logic would demand, mostly because workers are free to change jobs once their skills have been upgraded...