Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authority as a novelist. This, and his ability to handle an imaginative and intricate plot that welds his descriptions of dinner parties, restaurant games, Wall Street trading and courthouse chaos into more than a tour de force. Even at more than 600 pages, Bonfire moves with a swift comic logic. It has become a critical cliche to say that a book is hard to put down. Those who think that they can casually dip into this one, fuhgedaboudit...
...demand that they not be kept alive artificially. Respirators would not be used for the terminally ill. On the emotional issue of extending life by use of feeding tubes, he reasons that as external life extenders in some cases, they also should be treated as artificial intrusions. His logic moves inexorably on to the withholding of costly antibiotics...
...LOGIC of the TSAT is irrefutable. Why allow subjectivity to intrude on the tenure process? Sex discrimination, you claim? What were your TSAT scores?--case closed...
...force fallible mortals to evaluate candidates' credentials when a standardized test which is believed to be both objective and predictive can do it for you? For the same inexorable logic which holds that good lawyers can be culled out by the LSAT, future business mogols by the GMAT, dexterous dcoctors by the MCAT, and brilliant scholars by the GRE also insists that the very best senior faculty can be identified by a standardized test...
...business school's purpose is such that if Edleman's methods were inappropriate, logic fails to bring one to that conclusion. After all, the New York businessman was supposed to be teaching his students how to take over a company, and in such transactions, a lot of money is at stake. As one of Edleman's students said, the offering of the money made the assignment both more challenging and more realistic; it helped them learn as much as it tantalized them with visions of wealth. Just like the elementary school assignment in which you have to write a business...