When the acquisition closes in the first quarter, Rational will be the fifth division within IBM software, along with Websphere, DB2 database, Tivoli management products and Lotus collaborative software.
The school will state that the exit fee of three times the annual budget is arbitrary and has no rational tie to the amount of damages the ACC will suffer.
Thus, we will apply the rational basis test.
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These are all relatively modest measures. (We centrists always try to balance idealism with realism.) Unfortunately, the larger opportunities for broad tax reform or a grand bargain on long-term deficits and debt are unlikely to come until after the election -- and there's no rational reason to expect that the hyperpartisan politics will end then.
Raising the debt ceiling without a big fuss will allow a more rational debate about spending and taxing and the size of the deficit and the additions to total debt.
Most rational people believe that the worst sting will be taken out of this tail.
Rational investors will always prefer the lowest risk approach to achieving any particular expected return.
This approach is completely rational in the short term, and will not disrupt mindsets, organizational structures or business models.
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For all rational purposes, Cox says, the economy will not improve unless the market does.
As many of the world problems resolve over the next year, the markets should return to more rational analysis and will reward idiosyncratic company risk when appropriate.
But the rational case for investing your long-term savings will come to the fore for many millions of people in the next few years.
On prize day, one question nobody in the EU will ask is whether the world can afford the perverse luxury of 17 countries being unable to make rational economic decisions.
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How does digital actually connect with the emotional and rational drivers of consumer category engagement and how it will impact sales and loyalty?
We'll remain very calm and rational and we will be wise in dealing with the North Koreans if in fact they do go ahead with their announcement.
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"While this may not be a silver bullet that will cure the obesity epidemic, it's rational ... (and) one step that can be taken, " said the city Health Department's chief lawyer, Thomas Merrill.
Many advisors believe this is not rational and that eventually people will put their cash back in the market.
There is just no rational reason to think that lift will be any easier in the next Congress than in the current lame duck Congress, where our elected officials are supposedly more free to do the right thing, freed from electoral consequences.
Doing so will give you a rational strategy you can depend on when the market gets volatile.
The rational response to the injection of brain waves into Madison Avenue is that it will neither revolutionize marketing nor make us consumer slaves.
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.
Any rational assessment of the impact must result in the expectation that so large a loss of employment will throw a shock into the already wobbly recovery.
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The first is Facebook, the second Apple - and these wild gyrations in their value will do nothing to convince sceptics that there is anything rational about stock markets.
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