Word: logical
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...think you should get out of stocks; when the market puts shares on the bargain counter, logic dictates that you should buy, not sell. On the other hand, this is an ideal time to make sure your portfolio is protected against the next Enrons and Tycos...
...dramatic to protect civilians from terrorists. Those calls reached a climax last week when a car bomber killed 17 Israelis by detonating 220 lbs. of explosives alongside a bus in northern Israel. "We just need to stop the murder of Israelis," says a Defense Ministry official, explaining the simple logic of the fence. "That's all we care about...
...agree with the apologists for the Bush Administration; no one could have envisioned the atrocities of Sept. 11. But logic dictates that at the very least, intelligence information about suspicious activities should have been conveyed to the security authorities at airports. It's not that we expected perfect foresight, just common sense. ERNESTO VALDES Houston...
...judicious tactic considering the toughness of Beijing's cultural czars. (And Jiang, 39, shows no stomach for moving his talents outside of his homeland.) But the logic breaks down if you know the Jiang almost everyone in China knows: one of the toughest, most obstinate characters around, both onscreen and off. Is Director Jiang Wen really retired...
...European culture, Christianity, patriotism, hard work, high ideals, modesty, courtesy, a quiet but implacable independence." At 12, he was taken by his teacher-scientist father to a laboratory and shown, in Sakharov's words, "dazzling miracles, but miracles I could understand." Sakharov loved what classical physics taught him: observation, logic, experimentation and doubt. But Hiroshima changed everything for the young physicist. Learning of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Japan in 1945, Sakharov related: "I was so stunned that my legs practically gave way. There could be no doubt that my fate and the fate of many others, perhaps...