Word: logical
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...That late-20th century world of superpowers and bipolarity and arms control is dead. There is no Warsaw Pact. There is no Soviet Union. What is the logic of tailoring our weapons development against various threats around the world to suit the wishes of a country--Russia--that is no longer either an enemy or a superpower...
...slips like these are a normal part of mid-life. Even teenagers, capable of reeling off entire CDs of rock lyrics, occasionally blank out--though one might be suspicious of instances involving chores requested by parents or teachers. Unless your forgetfulness is accompanied by deeper failures in reasoning and logic, it's nothing to fret about. After all, if being absentminded were a sign of mental disarray, you'd have to write off Einstein, who bungled simple arithmetic even while working on relativity...
...applied transitive logic--you strike me as just such a person. Would you characterize yourself as such a person...
...investors react to news. Before the spring sell-off, even bad news was a reason to buy because such an announcement cleared away any reason to sell. Now stocks like Cisco and Hewlett-Packard are falling even on exceptional earnings reports. With the good news out, the new logic goes, there's nothing left to keep the stock up. Better sell. The scary thing is that there is no way to tell how long this irrational gloominess will rule. Investors should come to grips with the possibility that we have entered an old-fashioned bear market--one that lasts...
...missile-defense system, the U.S. would have to either convince Russia to amend the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which forbids either side from adding to its missile-defense systems, or else back out of the treaty. But the Russians warn that scrapping the treaty - which is based on the logic that defense systems diminish one side's fear of retaliation for launching a nuclear attack and therefore force the other side to deploy even more warheads to overwhelm such defenses - would void all other arms-control agreements between the two sides...