Word: logically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stock market dropped more than 500 points, the largest one-day drop in Wall Street's history. The chief actors in that demise were small computers, automatically selling and buying, buying and selling, huge blocks of shares. Without any human making any particular decision, machines followed a logic of their...
Wolfe shows in his accurate, yet broad brushed treatment of the city that people's lives have a logic dictated by their birth and their profession. Whether a Loman or a McCoy, you still have to get your foot into the door. Yet, for their origins alone, a Loman and a McCoy shall never meet...
...theorizes that U.S. prosperity and leisure time in the postwar period have resulted in a rebirth of homegrown oddballitry. He found that American eccentrics are just as humorous as their British peers, but generally kinder and less sarcastic. The Americans seemed to rely more on intuition and chutzpah than logic or rationality. Thanks to the American legacy of political rebelliousness, Weeks says, U.S.-bred eccentrics tend to hold more radical views than their better-born British brethren. "Eccentricity flourishes where there is freedom of expression," he says. "You won't find eccentrics tolerated in repressive regimes or countries where social...
...some twist of lacrosse logic, the Crimson was given home field advantage for this contest even though Navy--the number seven ranked team in the nation--finished three places higher than Harvard in national polls...
...Once again the possibility of logic and necessary solutions are being ruined," Walesa said in the taped statements. "They are sinking our country into ruin...