Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Practically nobody, however, has managed to touch the sensitive nerve of a vast section of mankind as effectively as Salman Rushdie. In Bombay seven prominent writers and intellectuals, all non-Muslims, declared in a joint statement, "The pain of scurrilous intrusion into the regions of the sacred is not felt...
"We tried to handle it in the most rational andobjective way we could," he says.
That does not mean that all women who get pregnant should be forced to have the baby. There are competing constitutional claims for both the mother and the fetus, a potential rational being, which must be balanced. Sometimes this balance would mean that some women should be allowed to have...
This country's laws have recognized that minors are not completely rational and cannot be held responsible for all their actions. No one is born knowing that sex leads to babies, so no one can be expected to make a rational decision about sex until educated. The state must insure...
-- The dark smoke of riots hanging over the Washington skyline -- smoke giddy with looting and circus, but at last completely rational: a sort of clarity of bitterness.