Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee also informally debated adding a math requirement to the Core Curriculum. Steven Rapkin '83 an Undergraduate Council representative on the Committee said the academic committee of the Council has discussed recommending that the Core require math, logic, and computer scrence...
Americans are starting to feel better about their own economic future and that of the nation too. So, by any logic, they are also looking more favorably on the performance of President Ronald Reagan, right? Wrong. The signs of an imminent economic recovery have had no effect at all on Reagan's general popularity. In fact, he is losing points with the public even as the economy improves. This is one of the surprising findings of the latest national opinion survey conducted for TIME by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White...
...doctors who are intent on preventing suicide among healthy people, as well as those clergymen who oppose suicide for any reason at all. The worst offender is France's Suicide: Operating Instructions, by Claude Guillon and Yves Le Bonniec, a pair of anarchists who, with ineffable Gallic logic, have equated the act of suicide with revolt against the established order. Their book, which explains how to forge doctors' prescriptions for lethal drugs, has attracted more than 100,000 French readers and has provoked denunciations by scores of physicians and public health professionals, including France's Minister...
Although we disagree with the Catch 22 reasoning, this was, indeed, the logic behind the Council decision. It is, therefore, equally unfortunate that such misrepresentation should appear in The Crimson is regard to a publication respected not only within the community but also nationally, as evidenced by an award in 1978 as one of the Outstanding Small Magazines in America...
...Spinney's case this is another way of saying that he possesses two qualities rare in bureaucrats, or indeed anyone: a willingness to follow his logic wherever it may lead, and an insistence on spelling out his conclusions even when they drive his bosses to sputtering fury. Those qualities have made Spinney so troublesome in the eyes of his superiors that they have repeatedly tried to muzzle and several times to fire...