Word: rationale
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And the process keeps changing. The Democratic leadership, aware for years that the post-1968 reforms were flawed, has continued to tinker. But despite a consensus that the calendar had to be made more rational, no one could control ) the "nomination window" in either party. States resentful of Iowa's...
-- The dark smoke of riots hanging over the Washington skyline -- smoke giddy with looting and circus, but at last completely rational: a sort of clarity of bitterness.
I still believed in my heart that they were mad, and yet my opposition to their plan was losing its passion. Why play the rational outsider? Why not join in on the fun...I was losing my mind.
Now, while quoting Montesquieu's dictum that a "rational army would run away," Keegan has undertaken a kind of sequel that shrewdly explores the various ways in which a gifted commander can not only steel men for battle but lead them to victory as well. Once again he has chosen...
The panic was gone, but not the sense of helplessness. Like survivors of a natural disaster, Wall Streeters swung in a half-rational pendulum of despair and delight last week. Ready for a fresh quake in any direction, investors searched for definite portents in every new development in the U.S...