Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cancer early? Neither choice is foolproof, and no studies of survival rates have been completed. "The literature is full of anecdotal reports of women who had breast cancer even after prophylactic surgery," says King. "If a woman has a mastectomy, she is doing it based on common sense and logic, not on statistical proof...
...that was part of the rationale Crimson editors used when deciding not to run the ad. But that reasoning, we learned, can lead to trouble. When Bradley Smith heard the college newspaper staffs' we-won't-run-lies arguments, he tried to trip up the students with their own logic. He sent out a second ad, this one more limited in subject and more innocuous in tone. It suggested that people rethink the Holocaust, but didn't refute facts outright...
...press defense/offense has not been that successful so far, but here's a key: when Harvard has held it opponent to under 66 points, it has won the game. Over 66, the Crimson is 0-8. So, if Pennsylvania's best game netted the Quakers just 72 points, the logic would seem to favor Harvard...
Though this may seem like support for a more androgynous environment, the students' logic led to precisely the opposite conclusion. Most panelists think that Harvard has placed women on a par with men, and any further segregation simply obstructs equality...
Woodall's article, "The Logic of Collusive Action," discussed the "political roots" of Japan's system of restricting the number of construction firms able to bid on government projects...