Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If reflection upon a single year has any use besides tidying up 12 months, it is as a lesson. In 1982, let us seek the rational rather than the rationalization.
Posner's privacy rule thus dooms Mr. X to suffer because his sexual behavior, information the author considers legitimate for his employer to obtain, even though it could have no bearing on his reliability as an employee. Posner offers no remedy for such a flagrant injustice other than a grudging...
Gaddafi's most predictable trait is bis unpredictability. "It's almost impossible to evaluate the man in rational terms," says a British diplomat. "With the coming of dawn, he may take off on a completely new tack." He is a man of mercury, quick to anger. Once when his second...
Equally sobering was the assessment of city and state inspectors that the fire was probably caused by arson. The circumstantial evidence was persuasive. There had been three previous fires of suspicious origin within two weeks, all of them next door to the building where officials believe the blaze began. But...
Second, Engelmayer fails to distinguish between acting as if the world were rational, and planning rationally how best to deal with an irrational world. The method of principled negotiation outlined in "Getting to YES" is an attempt at the latter. Far from assuming or pleading for rationality, Fisher and Ury...