Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I am aware that there is a distinction to be made between the above board activities of the CIA in gathering and analysing information to aid government in the rational formulation of policy, on the one hand, and its so-called clandestine operations. I am also aware, of course, that...
Farrakhan is a demagogue, though not much of one. Compared with North Carolina's Senator Bob Reynolds, who in 1939 likened the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia to the American pioneer spirit, Farrakhan is rational. Compared with the old antiblack, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish demagogues of the South, like "Pitchfork Ben...
I could try--and have tried--many rational machinations to justify his death, but they will all fail. I could try to write a work of art to put his death in some sort of perspective, but I don't have the talent. I could write a glorious indictment of...
Nineteen-eighty five saw Harvard take its first carefully planned steps towards computerization, but the steps were anything but bold. With characteristic caution, the University, despite dipping its feet into the waters, has yet to take the big plunge. If anything, 1985 is the year of the rational, the skeptical...
And in his annual report, Bok downplayed theories that computers influence the way a student treats a subject. He said the thought process remains essentially the same regardless of the medium through which material is processed. He also expressed doubt that the machines could ever intrude into certain areas, such...