Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adherence to the Ec 10 model led Johnson to believe that protesters of Starbucks must be (inappropriately) expressing their "preference" for a different kind of coffee store. If he had bothered to ask the people outside the Starbucks in Central Square last weekend why they were protesting--something economists are...
All thoughts and things were split. The sudden achievement of victory was a mercy to the Japanese no less than to the United Nations; but mercy born of a ruthless force beyond anything in human chronicle. The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom...
The CPI formula has been tinkered with in 1995, '96 and '97, refiguring food, housing and medical costs. Those changes shaved .3 of a percentage point off the annual rate. Last year the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking an experimental CPI, for the first time trying to account for...
She worked smaller audiences at Tennessee State and South Carolina U., which made for a more rational debate on the pros and cons of an Iraq attack.
Fear, it is true, can be a positive thing. It has often been called (usually by my mother) a great motivator. But that's the rational kind of fear. The irrational kind currently stalking seniors is of a more menacing sort. At one extreme, it can cause paralysis, rendering us...