Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their first job will be to hold their boss in check. Says one Ford aide of the President: "His instincts are to travel a lot. He's combative and competitive. To him, politics is a body sport. But he's also rational. He knows what happens when he travels all...
Unfortunately, Koestler omits the charming details of this conversion by comparative shopping. Instead, he offers the politics of Third World neutralism, arguing the possibility that a Jewish Khazaria could better deal with both Christians and Arabs. Such Realpolitik has a certain commonsensical appeal, but it also leaves out the less...
We need to establish an environment in which respect for institutions and the way they operate, for the manner in which politicians go about their business, leads to moderation and reason in public debate, where violence and the extreme view are rejected, where rational argument can predominate. We need to...
And they have. In the North, where more than 194 Protestants and Catholics have been killed since January, 1976 is shaping up as the bloodiest year since the violence began seven years ago. The violence in the North has become random. Gunmen burst into pubs and spray customers with automatic...
In a country where businessmen dress discreetly, speak circumspectly and plod patiently up the executive ladder, Robert A. Lutz, the president of German Ford, cuts a rather exotic figure. He wears elegant London-made suits and colorful shirts, rides motorcycles, collects and personally restores old cars, and speaks provocatively enough...