Word: logical
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Paul L. Vance, superintendent of Montgomery County public schools, criticized a study conducted under the auspices of Professor of Education and Social Policy Gary A. Orfield for factual inaccuracies, poor logic and important omissions...
...Jones lawsuit is a case of first impression, meaning that the courts have never before been asked to rule on the essential question: Does presidential immunity extend to conduct allegedly undertaken before a Chief Executive assumes office? Bennett will assert that the logic applied by the Supreme Court in its 1982 ruling in Nixon v. Fitzgerald should apply here as well. (After telling Congress that cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane could reach $2 billion, Ernest Fitzgerald, an Air Force management analyst, was fired. President Nixon took responsibility for his dismissal, and Fitzgerald sued Nixon for damages...
More galling even than the brusque, insensitive manner in which the calendar reform proposal was killed was the arrogant, self-serving Faculty logic underlying the move. Explained Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, "The Faculty Council seemed to feel that any major change in the status quo should not be entered into without a clear-cut advantage presenting itself in the proposed new arrangement...
...tough for the men's hockey program to accept such logic--everything looked so good for so long, and yet two of the three sought-for championships (Beanpot, ECAC, NCAA) took the concept of overtime and tied it around the Crimson's neck like the Ancient Mariner's albatross...
...bits on Leno's Tonight Show, has an absurdist playfulness. He knows a doctor so specialized that "he only operates on the wazoo." To pay for universal health care, he suggests, "wouldn't it be easier if everybody would just examine the person to your left?" Despite its sprung logic, though, Maher's work is still satire, sneakier than Miller's but just as potent. "We will strive," said Miller on his first show, "to be in the vanguard of the movement to irresponsibly blur the line between news and entertainment." Finally, two comedians who actually know the difference...