Fast forward a few more years and the intellectual movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment brought with it a new respect for the rational and useful and an emphasis on education rather than privilege.
When a policy fails so miserably, exacerbating the problems it was supposedly intended to solve, then rational people will look for new solutions.
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It also urges Pyongyang to have a "rational view" of the new resolution and refrain from "irrational moves" that may escalate tensions, but says other parties are also responsible for heightening tensions.
For a new generation of women, they are making rational choices.
Rational drug design, the hallmark of new-school biotech, is no panacea, as Gladwell rightly points out.
The new report concludes that Iran's decisions are rational and pragmatic, and that Tehran is more susceptible to diplomatic and financial pressure than previously thought.
Opponents warned at the time that this one-size-fits-all approach disregarded the various health needs of a diverse American population, and ignoree how rational people and states will react to new choices in front of them.
Seems like a rational person but he was born in Papua New Guinea.
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In a similar vein, it is time we recognise that we are becoming prey to a new fanaticism, a religious fervour that runs contrary to rational society.
And that's a universe in which new Internet-based companies are valued far above what any rational evaluation would indicate.
We need a more rational discourse based on trying to understand what this new economy consists of and how it functions.
" Rational Exuberance: The Influence of Generation X on the New American Economy", by Meredith Bagby, Dutton, 1998.
The best way of restoring New Labour's credentials is for the party to make it rational for us to vote for it next time.
As an author, Cox is something of an old-school muck-raking journalist with some new school flavor, combining hard-nosed investigative journalism with an equally rational future forward idealism.
Reinvigorate the rule of law through tort reform and get the Federal Reserve on a rational track again, and the economy can still leap from strength to new strength.
Definitely stretching the concept of "rational" to the breaking point, but who wants to pick a fight with New York?
Ariely, 43, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics, is among the most creative of a new breed of social scientists charting the numerous ways our psychological quirks cause us to deviate from rational behavior.
One economist leading the effort to define that new paradigm is Andrew Lo, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who sees merit in both the rational and behavioural views.
"By establishing a set of circuit breakers that uniformly pauses trading in a given security across all venues, these new rules will ensure that all markets pause simultaneously and provide time for buyers and sellers to trade at rational prices, " SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said.
"In the face of new and compelling data that there should be no elective deliveries before 39 weeks, there is very little rational basis to act differently, " says Jonathan Perlin, president of clinical and physician services and chief medical officer at HCA. He says 96% of deliveries now meet the 39-week rule.
They conjure up new assumptions and clever twists on old ones to prove that seemingly irrational phenomena are, after all, quite rational.
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"The utilisation of sex as a classification method is rational, since it is a straight forward way to ensure that birth records in the City of New York are uniform, " lawyers for the city wrote in a court filing.
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