Word: logical
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...reasonable person would suggest that a rural Iowan who spends a dollar, some fraction of which eventually ends up in Sudan after dozens of movements, is morally responsible for helping finance genocide. But supporters of divestiture use the same logic: Harvard invests...
However, the finest business model, be it online or “bricks and mortar” cannot take root and flourish if it is expected to compete with somebody giving away the same product for free. It simply defies logic and the reality of basic economics. The average motion picture costs $102 million to make and market. If the illegal swapping of movies online is allowed to reach the levels that nearly devastated the music industry, who will invest such sums to create movies in the future...
...toward a slippery slope--quite literally when she takes a skiing vacation with Darcy, and more figuratively when Grant's Daniel Cleaver puts his absurdly smooth and hilariously transparent moves on her. Later she finds herself in jail in Thailand, the innocent victim of a drug bust. The logic of this plotting may be--well, is--a little shaky, but who cares? Just as we are prepared to forgive Bridget the woman, so we forgive Bridget the movie its obvious flaws because of its equally inescapable charm. --By Richard Schickel
...losses every year from 1990 to the end. Instead, it posted profits, masking its problems with a mixture of fictitious transactions and aggressive acquisition; starting in 1992, the group began snapping up dairy and other companies in Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Hungary and the U.S. "It was a reversal of logic," says Vito Zincani, the chief investigating magistrate in Parma. Usually, companies take on debt to grow. But in Parmalat's case, "they had to grow to hide the debt." The core of the fraud was a system of double billing to Italian supermarkets and other retail customers. Simply...
Coming wide-eyed into my first semester here, everyone—students, proctors and professors alike—told me to try to take as many small, personal, discussion-friendly classes as possible. It’s easy to see the logic behind their point. Lecture classes are often large, anonymous and intimidating, with next to zero chance for personal engagement. In his book Making the Most of College, Gale Professor of Education Richard J. Light correlates taking too many lecture-style courses with a general academic dissatisfaction. He writes, “Most of the time smaller is better...