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Facing billions of dollars in liability, Merck did the rational thing and pulled Vioxx off the market.
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In reality, these odds are probably too charitable to the view that voting is a rational thing to do.
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"We're a certain kind of culture which makes it hard for us to behave rationally when the rational thing is to be tough, " he says.
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You do an awful but completely rational thing: You begin to build little barriers to avoid getting involved past a certain point to protect yourself.
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Because in the current chaotic state of conference realignment in college sports, the only rational thing to do is stay one step ahead of the competition and look out for your own best interest financially.
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Again, the recent housing crisis is a perfect example that has been discussed ad nauseam: Lenders were encouraged by public policy grounded in social-engineering to make uneconomic loans, and borrowers, often with the prospects of lax penalties, did the rational thing: They took all the money they could get.
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In a rational world there would be no such thing as a nondiversified money market account.
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And if the administration were rational spenders, they would do the same thing.
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Further, it is one thing if there was a reasoned, rational argument one could make about the dangers of Christian extremism.
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The only thing that can alter this losing equation is for rational Republicans to be in a position where they can tell their constituents that they succeeded in moving the country forward while standing up for the values their constituents expect their elected officials to uphold.
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The other thing is that the 20th century did not stand out as a century in which rational behaviour triumphed.
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