These are iterative activities, organized according to the activity based costing logic.
The girls agree that Slade is rude and classless and he's crossed the line... so, of course, by the show's conflict-at-all-cost logic, Vicki will go ahead and invite him to the "Winter Wonderland" party.
Zombies do, however, tend to put too much faith in the wisdom of the horde, sometimes at the cost of logic or their own better judgment.
By adopting a transaction cost economics logic, our study explores the conditions under which licensing partners may prefer arbitration over public ordering during the contractual-design phase.
But people don't always follow a cost-benefit logic.
The same cost-saving logic applies to energy saving, waste reduction, water efficiency and other on-site environmental measures.
The problem with this cost-benefit logic is that the consensus policy track already agrees with it, as do I, to the extent to which the logic works.
But the reality is that, unless we find some other way to rein in health-care costs, the logic of free trade in medicine is going to become harder to resist.
Yet as even the most starry-eyed romantic should know, economists' cost-benefit logic also matters — as witnessed, for example, by the many otherwise attractive suitors who are rejected because their earnings prospects are poor.
Maybe not quite as directly as sex is, but economists believe that the quest for a romantic partner obeys essentially the same cost-benefit logic that governs every other market.
