Word: rationale
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When I put to Huntington some figures that challenged his thesis, he said, "I don't think any of these issues are black and white." A central purpose of his article, he said, was to promote a "reasoned national discussion" on Mexican immigration. Fine. Trouble is, recent history suggests that...
But while all this strategic thinking is going on in the private sector, the government has responded to terrorism in a less rational way. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, about $13.1 billion has surged into state coffers from the Federal Government--sorely needed money that has gone for police, fire...
A typical run-through of Top Girls, one of several productions currently rehearsing for the Loeb Experimental Theatre, is initiated with an unusual ritual. The largely female cast and crew face each other in a circle and begin doing stretches. They start off with a relatively simple assortment of nerve...
The new material, called behavioral economics, blends recent psychological and economic research into a pointed critique of the fundamental assumptions of economics. The pioneers in the discipline have notoriously assumed that the people they studied are rational: they plan ahead, look to the future, and manage their money according to...
Calatrava has brought this vocabulary, both rational and anatomical, to other kinds of public building as well, including the tidal wave of his new opera house in Tenerife, Spain, and his addition to Wisconsin's Milwaukee Museum of Art, a structure that culminates in the rising arc of a sunscreen...