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But -- the indefensible Steinbrenner aside -- is this a rational form of organizational behavior? Many in baseball defend the practice, more as a psychological tool to motivate multimillion-dollar egos than as a strategic gambit. "I can get you ten to 15 people who can sit in the dugout and know...
But AIDS is not your run-of-the-mill epidemic disease, either, and Longtime Companion aptly performs a wellneeded task--reminding us that life is not as predictable and rational as other summer films would have us believe.
That is what businessmen and officials in the U.S. are hoping for too. Two- way trade across the border last year totaled almost $170 billion. Washington hopes Canada will not break up and does not think it will. But if it does, the Bush Administration is prepared to live with...
Hence his every action becomes grist for analysis. Saddam's obsession with security, which includes periodic purges of the party and the military, may merely be prudent, though some analysts see hints of paranoia. Yet most are convinced that Saddam is cunningly sane. "He is not a lunatic," says a...
"She has a very powerful analytical mind,"Hufton asserts. "She sees much of theirrationality in what passes as rational."