Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Logic is only one part of decision making, Rowan contends; it is often the daring, instinctual leap that can make all the difference. "Hunch is an odious word to the professional manager," he writes. "It's a horseplayer's . . . term, rife with imprecision and unpredictability." Yet the hunch continues to be a major managerial tool. Salting his argument with lively anecdotes and conversations with some 70 chief executives, Rowan makes an impressive and entertaining case...
...logic prevailed, Fao would be awarded not to the winner but to the loser of the struggle for this wet, muddy wasteland. Heavy trucks carrying Iraqi soldiers and supplies to the front rumble over roads running along levees, above the marshy terrain approaching Fao. The Iranians, using flat-bottomed boats with powerful outboard engines, roar across the blue-green waters of the gulf to deliver ammunition and reinforcements, who bring the latest , exhortations of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
Since Meese believes the "ideal of human dignity" and "the rights of equal citizenship" are not explicit in the letter of the Constitution, by his logic it follows that such concepts should not influence court decisions. But such an inflexible view of the Constitution renders it a tool for political conservatives, who can then use the supreme law of the land to justify an erosion of individual rights. This view mocks the founders; it uses their ideas to support a backward-looking political agenda...
Following the NRA's logic, an ideal gun law allows sportsmen, hunters, and honest citizens attempting to defend themselves easy access to guns. This protects the rights of folks like you and me. Criminals, on the other hand, should be punished heartily for any abuses they commit with handguns...
Nonetheless, the logic behind the disruption is problematic. The disrupters are partially correct in saying "No free speech for murderers." A person does not have the right, through public speech, to incite domestic murder (capital punishment excepted). The free speech of a KKK leader can be legally and morally denied, if through a public address he hopes to persuade fellow bigots to commit racially-motivated homocide...