Word: rationale
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The very appealing notion that genetic discrimination is unfair looks especially odd in the context of insurance. The idea of insurance is to protect against the unexpected or unlikely. Forbidding insurers to take predictable risks into account when choosing whom to insure and how much to charge is asking them...
Most of the rational world looked at the political landscape and foresaw a smooth ride to victory for Democrats. They had, after all, the wind at their backs from the 2006 midterm elections, and a Republican President with record-high disapproval ratings thanks to an unpopular war and a tanking...
As spring thoughts turn to the world outdoors, a new book invites us to greet it with a fresh eye. Avant Gardeners looks at the point where conceptual art meets landscape gardening and highlights the work of 50 designers who, for the past decade or so, have reacted to the...
Michael Mello, a professor at Vermont Law School who has written extensively on the death penalty, chose an apt verb when he was reached for comment on the decision. "I'm still excavating the opinions," he said by e-mail. It was quite a pile to wade through. "But I...
Following the “liberal consensus” of the postwar era that invaded Vietnam and ushered in the economic crisis of the 1970s, the movement that trumpeted economic freedom, individualism, and rational foreign policy made understandable electoral sense. Under Reagan, the Carter malaise was reversed, and economic policies...