Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather than getting bogged down with detail, he has advisers examine a problem, then present courses of action for him to consider. More by instinct than analysis, Reagan then is likely to make a quick decision. The decision for voters may rest on whether they trust Reagan's instincts and...
The panel did not deny the clear risk in living atop toxic pollutants. As Thomas put it: "Love Canal is obviously a miserable place, and I feel very sympathetic to the residents." It did say that before any rational decisions can be made about these dangers, they must be established...
Harvard has been permitted to appeal Cortese's office's decision five times. It reached that office because it had received approval from other agencies. All of these approvals were based upon particular submissions, engineering specifications, cost estimates, the lot. The Chapter 121A agreement, for example, was based on a...
Growing tired of the New Republic, Lippmann moved on to the Pulitzer-owned New York World to expand his influence among a wider circe of readers. Working there until 1931, when financial difficulties forced the World, the nation's most important liberal newspaper, to fold, his political sentiments gradually shifted...
The Greeks placed man in a precarious magnetic field between what is aspiring, rational, noble and demigodlike in his nature and raw, tameless instinctual drives that would shame the beasts. That is the thematic core of The Bacchae. But the dramatic spring, common to ancient tragedy, is a test of...