Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your articles about the sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia make it seem as if the only issue was Israel's security. The major point is that we have sold sophisticated secret equipment to an unstable regime that still countenances slavery, mutilation and racial and religious prejudice. Saudi Arabia...
Scientists give us 500,000,000 years or more before the sun grows big enough to sautee mankind; that is, they add, unless we do the job first. An all-out nuclear war, most rational observers contend, might well make the species extinct and would certainly end modern civilization. Now...
And the searchers after that middle ground may be many. There are the condo owners, who though secure in their homes may feel a psychological identification with others trying to circumvent the regulations limiting such purchases. There are the tenants who want to buy their own homes. There is that...
On Turkey. There is no rational reason for Turkey to expand westward. We could and should remain good neighbors. But we should respect each other's sovereign territory. Turkey maintains 120,000 troops equipped with landing craft in the Aegean. Obviously, this is not for defense against the Soviet...
There was Ragen, the psychotic and angry rapist; Arthur, a rational and emotionless Englishman (replete with accent): Allen, the con man; Danny, the frightened adolescent; Adalana, the introverted lesbian (three of his personalities were female); Philip, the thug; Kevin, the planner; Walter, the Australian big-game hunter; Lee, the comedian...