Word: logics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second assumption (namely, that women will now vote for Bush because he's got a handsome running mate), which was clearly involved in the decision since Bush trails so badly among women voters, is not only incredibly insulting to women, but doesn't make logical sense. After all, by that logic, Geraldine Ferraro (or Meryl Streep) would have closed the gap among male voters for Walter Mondale in 1984 And it's not like Quayle has a popular record to go along with his pretty face: he's staunchly opposed to the ERA, comparable worth and parental leave...
...Fenway for Boston's 5-0 win over the Brewers on Sunday. The Sox were a half-game behind the Yanks and logic told me to root for the Brewers. But how could I root for Dale Sveum, the Brewer shortstop? Or even Rob Deer, who swings more than the Glen Miller band...
Everything else associated with these murders has long been up for grabs; understanding has been swamped by a torrent of details and speculation. The Kennedy assassination now seems to float in some peculiar, highly charged ether between fact and fiction, where logic distills into dreams. To write a novel about the deaths in Dallas seems redundant, the making up of a story about a myth...
...25th wedding anniversary approaches, Paulie Flax, a household-hints columnist for her local suburban newspaper, views her marriage to Howard, who years ago traded in his jazz saxophone for a Long Island recording studio, with unfaltering logic: the passion has gone out of their union; therefore she must leave him. But fate intervenes, as it always does in a comedy of mores. When Howard suffers a heart attack, Paulie sets aside her resolve -- until she uncovers his passing liaison with a would-be Mme. de Pompadour of the shopping malls. That propels her into New York City, where Son Jason...
...great-grandfather's Hebrew first name and simplified the English spelling of his surname) was also a mathematician, a computer scientist and a chess whiz who had devised a computer program for playing the end game. When he was arrested in 1977, he sought to use the same logic to defeat his KGB opponents, who were preparing to try him as an anti-Soviet agitator...