Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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(2 of 13) University Historian Rosario Romeo puts it, "Everyone imagines socialism in his own way." To Senegal's President Léopold Senghor, socialism is "the rational organization of human society according to the most scientific, the most modern and the most efficient methods." To Britain's Labor Prime Minister...
But can Israel bring itself to surrender territory that could be used to launch a new war against it? Even so moderate and rational a man as Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, leader of the D.M.C. and Deputy Premier, says no. "When we come to an issue like the West Bank," he...
The therapy is unusual because it employs a substance naturally occurring in the cancerous cells. This method is part of what Wick called a "rational approach to chemotherapy," in which researchers try to kill cancerous cells without harming normal cells in the body.
Nevertheless, the single source of dramatic energy in this crude thriller is Crichton's exploitation of the audience's rational and irrational fear of doctors and hospitals - the always reliable "Let me out of here!" reaction as the anesthesiologist's gas mask clamps down over the face...
U.S. officials, indeed, hope to stabilize the dollar without actually having to buy up many greenbacks. They theorize that the dollar's price has been driven down below any rational calculations of its real worth by speculators who expected it to keep dropping mostly because Washington would do nothing...