Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The problem is not labor's power. The problem is the elimination of that fear which makes balanced, rational demands by labor and capital impossible today. Strong unions, sure of their acceptance in the society, will continue to do what the Wagner Act says they will do--contribute to the...
"He would be more rational and less instinctive, less subject to sexual and parental emotion, to rage on the one hand and to so-called herd instincts on the other. His motivation would depend far more than ours on education. . . . He would be of high general intelligence by our standards...
One Game Ended. Finally on its own again after five long years, U.S. business seemed too nervous to give its markets stability or even rational consistency. Actually, decontrol was far less of a shock than OPAsters had direly predicted.
The true obstacles to increased immigration, then, are not rational but emotional. The immigrants are there and land and economic potential are here. Cushioned upon entry by relatives and welfare agencies, the hounded of Europe would soon lend the Nation their talents, enthusiasms, and numbers. Humane principles call for increased...
A spurious theory, still popular unfortunately, tries to explain that hideous penchant of ours for collecting things as nothing but a legitimate inheritance from some of our more squirrel-like ancestors. The bare truth of the matter is that collecting is a form of escapism. It affords the harried citizens...