Word: logics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absorb the blow of any military thrust against Israel. He saw no irony in reassuring his audience that the West Bank settlements are valuable and truly livable, while simultaneously designating their inhabitants as mere cannon fodder. To use citizens in such a way is evidence of a very odd logic--an ad hoc obstructionism which offers no prospect of a decisive issue...
...devoted fans, dispensing with such frivolities as sleep to catch late-night-TV games from the West Coast; mornings reserved for poring over box scores and analyzing the pitching lines for the crucial upcoming games. The daily drama of the pennant race flows inexorably from its underlying zero-sum logic: a ball club either beats all comers in its seven- team division or sadly packs its equipment bags at the end of the regular season...
...play-offs. The Major League Players Association had balked at an earlier proposal to have two wild-card teams in each league compete with the winners of the two existing divisions. The three-division plan represents an awkward compromise. Granted, three divisions in each league will finally bring geographic logic to baseball: no longer will schoolchildren grow up believing that St. Louis is really in the East and Atlanta in the West. But reconfiguring the two 14-team leagues into three divisions each is also inherently unfair: there will be only four, not five, teams in the Western outposts...
...have made new, direct capital investments in South Africa. More have joined the total of 419 firms that have set up low-risk, nonequity deals, which give them a presence in the marketplace but no substantial stake in the economy. Among them are information-technology companies such as Advanced Logic Research...
...often contested by many of the same zealots who attack the clinics. These criminals at the clinics refuse to teach teenagers about sex and birth control, but then refuse to let a 13-year-old girl have an abortion when she becomes pregnant. Would somebody show me the logic...