Word: logicality
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Amid the acrimony, the challenge for investors is to keep an eye on the bottom line. "Personalities make this contest more sexy for public consumption," says Ram Kumar, senior analyst for Institutional Shareholder Services, who has heard the stump speeches of both sides. "We try to confine ourselves to logic." Kumar's rationale counts more than most. Next week the influential ISS will mail a widely awaited report to pension funds and other big holders of HP stock. Because the family foundations opposing the merger control 19% of HP shares, Fiorina needs around two-thirds of institutional investors...
...confused blend of aesthetic disgust (“Yuk—they clash with my stylishly faded jeans”) and hygienic anxiety (“What if the person before me, you know, had really gross feet?”). It was hard to argue with such impeccable logic. She ultimately relented, though, successfully persuaded by the charming, if gruff, attendant that no, it would not be acceptable for her to bowl in socks. No, not even if they were from Barney?...
...don’t think there’s any concern taking the SAT I more than once. Somehow that same logic has not seemed to apply to SAT II tests,” McGrath Lewis said...
...year. The onus for paying now shifts to the taxpayers, who will cover $700 million, or more than 50 percent, of the fund's budget. The White House also advocates curtailing the roster of sites covered by the fund, down from the current 1,551. What's the logic behind the cutbacks? Bush staffers tell the Times that there aren't any manageable sites left to clean - only the "megasites" remain, and they're simply too tough to tackle, especially without adequate funding...
...incarceration calculus to this situation. According to standard incarceration calculus, if something is hard to do, like open-heart surgery, the practitioner should be paid. On the other hand, if something is too easy to do, like murder, the practitioner should be jailed. If you failed to follow that logic, do not worry; it just means that you haven’t read enough Kant...