Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hiring Louis-Dreyfus, the Saatchis have harked back to the skill that transformed their small agency in London's Soho district into an international behemoth: hard-nosed financial know-how. The Iraqi-born brothers convinced London investors a decade ago that the ad business was an intriguing play. The logic of global corporate expansion, they argued, demanded an agency that could provide one-stop shopping for multinational firms interested in advertising and marketing services that stretched from Asia to North America to Europe. Such an agency could help companies build worldwide markets for their brands and could reap extra profits...
...same logic applies to rent control in Cambridge. About 40 percent of those in rent-controlled apartments can pay higher rents. Since the property values are lower than market rents, the city collects less in taxes...
...library assistant update the stacks. As she walked through with a bucket, she picked up volumes, glanced at them for a moment, and then threw them away. Russell was particularily alarmed when she tossed out the last remaining copy of his Principia Mathematica, a brilliant work on mathematics and logic...
...such logic has drawn negative publicity forHarvard at least once before. Two years ago, aproposed deal between the Kennedy School ofGovernment and a Texas couple prompted a period ofUniversity introspection about the ethics offundraising when the terms were disclosed: inexchange for a $500,000 donation, the couple waspromised "Officer of the University" status andseats on two Kennedy School advisory committees...
...tortuous nature of that language was hardly unplanned. It is not difficult to imagine the misguided logic by which charitable organizations that fund Arab groups will be defined as acting "for the denial of the existence of the state of Israel...