Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I suppose that most tourists are similar around the globe, but D.C. tourists rank above travelers to any other city. People don't come to Washington to relax or catch a show or see Elvis' house. They flock to the capital to learn, celebrate America and be the best gosh...
The following night Bill and Alice find themselves embroiled in an argument about sex and jealousy. Both accuse the other of harboring lascivious thoughts from the night before, and their logic is playfully incisive until Alice launches into an odd (there's no other way to describe it) monologue about...
Internet analysts, as confused as the rest of us, are riding the fence. They recognize that the recent Internet-stock drop could be just another fake-out--"an intrusion of rational thinking," says one--like the dips in January and last autumn. In both cases, patience and faith were rewarded...
Is this lunacy? Not at all. "The stock market is acting perfectly rational with this Internet thing," says Charles Clough, chief market strategist at Merrill. "It is providing capital because this whole infrastructure has to be built, and it has to be built very rapidly."
To hear Slobodan Milosevic tell it, his surrender to NATO was the happy ending to a fairy tale. Appearing before his bombed-out, beleaguered nation on TV last Thursday, he said, "The aggression ended. Peace prevailed. Dear citizens, happy peace to us all!" It's hard to know how any...