Word: logical
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...analyst at Munich, Germany-based Bayerische Landesbank. Christian Streiff, who took over as Airbus chief executive in July, is now trying to wriggle out of that choke grip. Last week, the board of EADS, Airbus' parent, signed off on his sweeping restructuring plan to replace political bargaining with industrial logic. Streiff says that Airbus urgently needs to become a more closely coordinated company, but that's a long-term undertaking. "Integrating Airbus will remain an issue for the next decade," he said. "The cultures will have to continue mixing, and that takes time." It's not clear that Streiff will...
Although you acknowledge that the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy was enacted by Congress, you make an unsupported leap of logic when you state that it justifies “banning military recruiters from campus.” “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is a Congressional act that the military cannot overrule. If you are serious, you should call for a ban on visits from members of Congress and former President Bill Clinton, who introduced the policy...
...center in 2004—riding on the coattails of Larry Summers’ consequence-rich gaffe, which the group claimed was merely the exposed tip of his “anti-woman-agenda” iceberg—their justification seemed an about-face in logic...
...told by deans, the center’s director, and its paid interns alike, the logic goes something like this: Students have been advocating for the center for 30 years, and there must be a reason for that, no? And when pressed for specifics—Well, just look at the imbalance between men and women on the Undergraduate Council...
...become so furious? And what are we so mad at?It could just be the alcohol. Rage denotes drink and drinking portends problems. Doesn’t being under the influence basically beget a brawl? We don’t drink because we’re angry, the logic goes, we’re angry because we drink, too much. But “rage” isn’t just showing up after scorpion bowls and beer kegs. Road rage plagues the highway and air rage is only the latest response to tightened regulations aboard mid-air flights...