Word: logicality
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...staff fails to perceive the difference between needless provocation of China (such as Bush’s use of the word “competitor”) and prudent, principled disagreement. By its logic, Taiwan needs no military whatsoever, since the United States is pledged to defend it. Why let the Taiwanese defend themselves if we can send American soldiers no older than the staff to die in their place...
...discovery that could radically change the way computers are made, Hyman Professor of Chemistry Charles M. Lieber says he has constructed working logic circuits, interconnecting transistors, with nanowires only ten atoms across...
...percent would spur Greenspan to between-the-meetings action. Consumer confidence, after all, is all about having a job and expecting to keep it, and no matter how low 4.3 is on the historical scale, the trend is now officially an upward one. Here's how the market logic goes: short trading week, low volume, no economic reports (save inflation on Thursday, but that's not a real headliner these days) - a perfect time for the Fed to phone in a rate cut without appearing too responsive...
...have been sent by their evil ruler to conquer the earth, but they took the assignment so they could bliss out on the planet's junk food and video games. There's the brains thing - the Martian perspective on life can be dim, dumb and completely impervious to logic. And finally, there's the looks thing: the Butt-Uglies have blue skin, big teeth, and bulging, bug eyes...
...Therefore, let America reverse the schoolyard logic for an instant. Let George W. Bush apologize to the Chinese in a spirit of such spectacularly self-abasing contrition that Beijing will be left, like Daffy Duck, in a state of dazed perplexity, with its bill spinning...