Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Welcome to the headquarters of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City. Its 2.1 million files, according to a devastating new report by the National Academy of Sciences, symbolize the INS's inability to "produce reliable, accurate and timely statistics that permit rational decision making concerning immigration policy...
So one immediately tries to make an orderly sense of things. There is no way to explain away cyclones, of course, but experts may be called in to analyze violence in sports or to invent measures guaranteeing that such a horror will never take place again. Not that rational activity...
The CRR is charged with preserving the essential freedoms of speech and movement guaranteed in the Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR). Coercive tactics cannot be condoned when rational arguments fail to persuade Harvard students and officials. The task of upholding this incontrovertible principle is exceptionally sensitive, and...
The basic preaching of TA is that the mind has three "ego states": Parent, Adult and Child, which parallel the Freudian categories of superego, ego and id. The Adult is the rational problem solver; in the healthy personality, the Adult controls both the Parent, who keeps trying to enforce ancient...