Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ills and in justice. Referring to Latin America, it condemns military dictatorships, corruption and economic exploitation. These ills, the decree says, "nourish a passion for revolt among those who thus consider themselves the powerless victims of a new colonialism in the technological, financial, monetary or economic order." And the logic and language of Marxism, it declares, are "incompatible with the Christian vision of humanity...
...gushing over Ferraro's virtues suggests that Mondale expects to be swept into office on Ferraro's petticoat, a triumph of lingerie over logic...
...someone who knew where I kept my marijuana. That much was demanded by logic ... I realized that as I met my friends on the street in the day or two to come, I would distrust the look in every eye. I was like a man plummeting down a slippery slope who finds a little horn of ice to grasp, but so soon as he embraces it, the projection breaks loose. I saw that if I could not decide the first question, which was: Put it!-Was I the killer?-then I could - not stop the slide...
Chief Justice Warren Burger noted that 200 volunteers were searching for the child's body at the time Williams led po lice to it, and that it would have been "inevitably discovered" by lawful means without his help. That being so, wrote Burger, it "would reject logic, experience and common sense" to apply the exclusionary rule and bar the evidence. This "inevitable discovery" doctrine had been previously adopted by almost all other courts, so it was no surprise to scholars that the Supreme Court also approved...
...ticket. Like Ferraro, he is an Italian American from the New York City borough of Queens. Ideologically, he is close to Mondale, but some party strategists, arguing in favor of Cuomo, think Mondale should not worry about orthodox ticket balancing. If the Democrats are to win this year, the logic runs, their best shot may be a pair of unalloyed New Deal Democrats, making the alternative to Reagan stark...