Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...companies have played a huge role. Those things will persist. But our limitless affection for technology, blind faith in index funds and grossly underappreciated sense of stock-market risk are part of the equation too. And those things will pass. It was only 10 years ago that we stretched reason to justify Japanese stocks' trading at 70 or 100 times earnings--just ahead of that country's enduring recession. Today's most popular stocks trade in that range, and tortured explanations again pass for wisdom...
...your ideas from watching Xena: Warrior Princess? You say we are finding out so many new things about women, but there's really not much to hang your hat on here. If science doesn't back you up, you can just say science must be wrong! If reason doesn't back you up, no problem; women have for too long been held down by reason. You didn't allow for the chemistry between men and women, what happens when they get together. Without this essential chemistry, your theories fizzle. T. PAIGE DALPORTO Charlton Heights, W.Va...
...argument in favor of Kazan's honorary Oscar. Schickel stated that Kazan's films are so good that they cancel out his misdeeds, saying history resists easy moralizing. The right argument is that Oscar should be about great art and cinematic achievement, and Kazan deserves the Oscar for that reason. MITCH GART Bedford, Mass...
...PAGES GO UNNUMBERED: "If there was some consistency about the lack of numbers," wrote one frustrated reader, "I wouldn't mind so much. If yours was the only publication that practiced this insane policy, I wouldn't mind. But there isn't, you aren't, and I do." The reason for this irritant, in a nutshell, is that our magazine's ad content can vary from region to region of the country, leaving us unable to put numbers on those pages that don't appear in the entire circulation run. Trust us on this; we're not trying...
Before Keynes, economists were gloomy naysayers. "Nothing can be done," "Don't interfere," "It will never work," they intoned with Eeyore-like pessimism. But Keynes was an unswerving optimist. Of course we can lick unemployment! There's no reason to put up with recessions and depressions! The "economic problem is not--if we look into the future--the permanent problem of the human race," he wrote (liberally using italics for emphasis...