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...They're making decisions that may seemfinancially unsound, but it's really what peoplewant to see right now," she said...
Frank Sulloway, a visiting scholar of science history at M.I.T. and a longtime critic of Freud's methods, takes a somewhat more apocalyptic view: "Psychoanalysis is built on quicksand. It's like a 10-story hotel sinking into an unsound foundation. And the analysts are in this building. You tell them it's sinking, and they say, 'It's O.K.; we're on the 10th floor...
City Councillor Sheila T. Russell called it"environmentally unsound" because of the increasedexhaust the many lanes of trafficwill cause. Still, planners defend the proposal asmore environmentally sound than the city'spreference--a tunnel under the Charles River...
Proposition 174 was not defeated because of its being intellectually unsound; rather, it lost due to the failure of its proponents to reassure parents about certain basic elements of the plan. The spectacular war chest of teachers' unions, who waged a multi-million dollar media campaign, enabled questions and reservations concerning the proposal to override consideration of its many benefits. Nevertheless, a few improvements to Proposition 174 could have allayed many of these parental fears and made the proposal a national model for education reform...
...said the demolition had to be done. "Thebuilding was structurally unsound and posed asever threat to caving in on Mass. Ave.," he said