Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHY should you support the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in its strike against the Pittston Corporation by attending the the rally today at noon in front of the Harvard Corporation? After all, it's no longer rational to automatically side with organized labor against management. Excessive wage demands...
The meek shall inherit the earth. In a rational universe, the Orioles (losers of 107 games last year) have no business nipping at the Blue Jays' heels. Aside from their lone star, indestructible shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., the O's represent an amalgam of rookies and major-league rejects. A...
One reason for the picture's impact is its straight-ahead melodramatic structure. At its simplest level the movie functions as a well-constructed mystery story. A black man, a gardener named Gordon Ngubene (Winston Ntshona), comes to his employer, Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland), asking him to help find...
Instead, Dinkins appealed to the rational majority of New Yorkers--those who knew that, despite the mood of hysteria that had engulfed the city with the hot and humid summer air, a majority of New Yorkers of different races actually wanted to get along.
McAfee's situation has revived a smoldering controversy over whether health- care providers should help the disabled commit suicide. In July a paraplegic in Michigan successfully petitioned a court to have his respirator turned off. Some officials denounced that action, saying it set a dangerous example for the handicapped by...