Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While a case-by-case approach may appear on its face to be a fair and rational one, in practice it has been a prescription for obfuscation and delay. First, the entire process is dependent on data and information the corporations themselves provide. While most major companies provide information on...
What was it with these people? They were all intelligent, potentially competent, as honest as the next guy. They had probably all entered Government service with enthusiasm and dedication. But somewhere along the line they had all settled for far less than expected-and some had virtually embraced incompetence. The...
Stockdale's experiences probably qualify him as much as anyone alive to lead career military officers into the labyrinth of moral questions that have come out of Viet Nam. Ethics is taught in many forms in service academies and postgraduate institutions. But Stockdale wants to create a model specifically...
There are those, of course, who would like to see slogan eering die off entirely. Precisely because the art appeals to emotion, some idealists and intellectual purists disdain it in favor of cool, rational discourse. This crowd is clearly trying to swim against a very strong human current. Moreover, they...
That it why it is so easy to understand why the people who run Harvard run it the way they do--because it is really running them. When Harvard bleeds its unions at the bargaining table, when it spreads out into the city and evicts tenants along the way, when...