Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Healy cited miscommunication between the city and state as one reason the penalty was levied. He said he had discussed the matter with state officials and hoped to have it resolved soon...
...Each president has his own specific reasons," Orleans said yesterday. "But I think one explicit reason was the difficulty that the game would conflict with the exam schedules of certain schools...
Professor Blumenthal is wary when he laments the "deglandularization" of youth, that no one kisses "(dry or wet)," that we write Mac-poetry. He has reason to be so. Professor Blumenthal wants us to understand that he has thought this through, that this is wisdom, that this is reasoned. But if the youth of the '60s were "at-least-passionate," then the youth of the 1980s--my peers who watched the divorce rate among their parents skyrocket (at-least-passionate), who watched AIDS claim the lives of thousands (at-least-passionate), who came to view successful marriages as the exception...
...reason prices have become dangerously affordable is that smugglers have proved so flexible. When federal agents cracked down on shipments through South Florida, traffickers started routing shipments through the porous Mexican border. At the same time, the smuggling industry has plenty of competition. When Colombia's campaign against the Medellin cartel hampered that group's operations, the rival Cali-based group filled the vacuum...
...glow of victory, narcotics officers congratulated one another on finally putting a dent in the drug-smuggling apparatus. But in recent weeks the vastly increased tonnage of captured cocaine has been generating some anxious rethinking about the scale of America's coke problem. Reason: since cocaine is essentially a commodity, its price follows the same basic rules of supply and demand that apply to wheat, soybeans and pork bellies. When supply is abundant, prices fall; when there is scarcity, prices rise. Ominously, the huge U.S. seizures in the past few months, along with the Colombian government's crackdown...