China's leaders make rational decisions that balance the needs of all citizens over the long term.

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Is it because of any rational analysis of changing markets and shifting customer needs?

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But a rational plan for slimming should be based on the needs of the future, not the misdeeds of the past.

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There's a sense there may never be another chance to do what needs to be done, and that may be rational.

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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.

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Lord Wilson said KM's lawyers had failed to establish that the offer was not a rational assessment "of the cost of meeting the appellant's eligible needs".

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Instead of rational beings driven consciously by ideas, we are mostly unconscious beings driven by intents and needs that often happen in the blink of an eye before we are aware of them.

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Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy held that a Colorado constitutional amendment forbidding local gay rights legislation lacked a rational basis because it singled out gays, but he expressly declined to establish gays as a class that needs special antidiscrimination treatment.

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