Word: logical
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...Iran's biggest strategic concern is obtaining security assurances and accords, and the only nation that can provide those is the U.S." says Didier Billion, deputy director of the Institute on International and Strategic Relations in Paris. The logic behind that view is supported by Thomas Fringar, chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council and the senior analyst in Washington's intelligence community. In a recent preview of his council's Global Trends 2025 report, Fringar noted that Iran's leaders will eventually decide on whether to build nuclear weapons based on their assessment of their security environment."The United...
...have to spend money with the confidence of someone who knows he's going to make a lot more. I informed him that Rick Ross is not a certified financial adviser. "He's certified. He makes a lot of money," he told me. I could not argue with that logic. Not if I wanted to stay in the posse...
...Duke in ACC play, and it ended with “the slip felt (read, heard, who knows) round the world,” as Harvard fell to Brown, whose mascot is the Bears, whose poop smells so freaking bad. By extension, Brown smells like bear poop. Brown stinks. Logic v. Brown: logic always wins!!!!Let’s start with the worst: Harvard’s ugly 24-22 loss against the aforementioned stinky-dinkies from Providence.Three fumbles, a missed two-point conversion, and a missed extra point after our kicker slipped in front of the ball. Come...
...Michele Polo, a professor of economics at Milan's Bocconi University, says liquidation may now be the only option remaining. Polo doesn't see the logic in trying to keep the airline afloat just to maintain its Italian identity, and he expects that Italy's No. 2 airline, AirOne, and foreign carriers will almost certainly fill the profitable Rome-Milan route, while low-cost carriers will jump on other Italian destinations. "The market will do its job," he says. "This kind of evolution would bring more competition." A significant number of laid-off Alitalia employees would eventually be rehired...
...failures? France's handling of the Beijing Olympics was a clear one. Sarkozy made himself a prisoner of a contradictory logic by trying to appear dedicated to human rights without endangering the economic interest of French firms. France fell between two stools and became an easy target for Chinese assertions that its position lacked coherence. Another failure was France's initial neglect of Germany's sensitivities toward Sarkozy's ambitious Mediterranean project...