Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...address them--a syndrome to which any "issues-oriented" campaign is susceptible. The problem begins with candidates' reduction of the issue-program relationship to the level of a simple "if...then..." statement: if you favor a reduction in unemployment, then you should support Humphrey-Hawkins. Under the rules of logic, a statement's contrapositive must also hold true, and if Jimmy Carter did not endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, then, so the argument runs, he must not truly be committed to reducing unemployment...
...continued life of the revolution, Terrill believes, "you can't sustain a revolution forever--that's the internal logic and the sociology of it." Revolution happens, he says, when people feel an intolerable injustice, but it is not required in the push for perfectability. Terrill does allow for the possibility that the Chinese will grow apathetic, making it easier for a rigid bureaucracy to take root--"the old combination of legalism from above and Taoism from below...
Historically, the U.A.W. has declined to call industry-wide strikes, preferring instead to zero in on a so-called target company-this year, Ford. The union's logic: the target company, fearing a loss of business to the competition if it alone was struck, would do its best to meet labor's demands. Talks began in July, and Ford, as is the custom, presented a skimpy mettle-testing counteroffer to the U.A.W.'s platform. No problem so far; a walkout still seemed remote...
...grand slam homer and game-winning touchdown wrapped into one. It is this kind of action and these kind of men that draw perhaps 500,000 Southerners on a weekend to some 100 small tracks operating week after week for nine months a year. The sport defies economic logic. A late-model sports car race might feature a dozen cars worth from $12,000 to $16,000 each flying flat out to win a first prize of $700. At the smallest tracks, the purse can drop...
...unsurprising that Horner's behind-the-scenes negotiating technique has left many Harvard observers whispering that Radcliffe has nothing to do. This belief has some logic since Horner, albeit well known on the national scene, is rarely heard from in her own backyard. As one long-time Harvard observer put it, "Most people on this side of the Common have no reason to know the president of Radcliffe...From what anyone can gather, Radcliffe has spent the last four years deciding whether freshmen should live in the Quad and that's a pretty petty issue...