Twenty years ago, the world's leading luxury brands routinely rationalized not doing anything about fakes.
Under a regulated utility-like structure, fares would be rationalized and capacity and would be increased by mandate.
He also shows how guilt for a dishonest act is rationalized away so that a pure self-image emerges.
This rationalized the market at 1350, an elusive number today, but historically consistent rather than pie in the sky.
Caving in, compromising, and taking whatever the other side offers you are actions that are often rationalized as being flexible.
Outdoor sports equipment however, is not cheap, so I rationalized that I could acquire my attire one item at a time.
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First is Europe, which will continue to lose maybe half a billion, annually, but over capacity there can be rationalized over time.
Management rationalized that the move into consumer products would be a way to keep the growth engine moving and create strategic opportunities.
In the case of residential mortgages, government involvement is generally rationalized as a choice between government mortgages or no mortgages at all.
Hey, grandma, with her 401(k) money, is a big girl (they rationalized).
Operations have been streamlined, facilities have been rationalized, cultures have been unified.
Look, for example, at the way the head of the second-largest union, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, rationalized the unethical behavior.
The thinking mind, in contrast to the programmed selling, rationalized that Freeport McMoran is not without value, given its diversified geographic and political mining operations.
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In the years before the popularization of mobile phones, some motorists rationalized that a CB radio would be good to have in the car for emergencies.
When instead it was reported there had again been additional jobs lost, it was rationalized that the unusual stormy weather in February had held companies back from hiring.
That left an industrial mishmash that had to be rationalized.
Program size must be rationalized for good times and bad.
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In Gen-Y, this feeling can be rationalized as perhaps derived from an early life where parents gave them everything, and they now expect the world of business to do the same.
"I'd thought about it for years so I just sort of rationalized the space, " he says, but even without a long percolation period he approaches projects for clients the same way.
So many companies have modernized and rationalized their workforces.
The black swan theory was developed by Nassim Taleb to describe an event that is a complete surprise, has a major impact, and after the fact is rationalized with the benefit of hindsight.
In that sense, the only proper reform would involve the federal government exiting health care altogether so that spending on what is a good as opposed to a "right" is rationalized to our economic betterment.
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