Word: rationale
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Even in the more rational horse latitudes of Boston, balloonery is booming. Joanne Williams, a former producer of children's television shows, unleashed Balloons Over Boston 13 months ago, is already grossing $100,000 a year and expects to earn $250,000 next year. As the official balloon provider...
For most Israelis the bill was a way of letting off steam, a shaking of the fist at what they regard as a frontal attack on their right to the city of Jerusalem as the focus of both their nation and their faith. What took place in the Knesset was...
Vorenberg noted that one of Sacks' greatest strengths as dean has been "the sense he has given the faculty of a very open institution. He is a classically rational person with whom you can discuss any topic."
In 1970, the hotel mananger tells Jack, the winter caretaker, a drunk named Delbert Grady, succumbed to "cabin fever" and axed his wife and two daughters into little bits and stacked them in a corner smiles; he's a rational person who's been on the wagon for five months...
KUBRICK'S FAVORITE THEME of man seeking his own death weaves its way subtly through this nasty plot. Jack Torrance is a man who has always allowed his drinking and his temper to overwhelm his reason, a man who sets his own roadblocks and then tries to run them in...