In fact, in its effort to rationalize a growing culture of war-making from Vietnam to Afghanistan, America has come around to embracing the insanity of the fictional Colonel Kurtz.
Ginny Mayer Dana Point, Calif., Feb. 6, 2008 To the Editor: Re "With Issues of War and Peace on Their Minds, Voters Make Choices" (news article, Feb. 6): It's difficult for me to rationalize the fact that most voters believed that the economy was the most important issue in this primary election.
Honestly, for a company that's never shied away from potentially flooding the market with a million different devices in the same category, it's tough to rationalize the fact that the company didn't release the Sport SKU alongside the original S3 (which already came in two different configurations).
The N.C.A.A. exists to rationalize the tawdry fact that the labor force of a $6 billion business — the estimated revenue of college football and men's basketball — receives no compensation.
Thus, high configurational entropy provides a way to rationalize, after the fact, why a solid solution forms (if it forms), but it is not a useful a priori predictor of which of the so-called high-entropy alloys will form thermodynamically stable single-phase solid solutions.
And it's human nature for people and organizations to be reluctant to acknowledge mistakes and to have an almost unlimited capacity to rationalize and force facts and theories to conform to their self-interest.
Our model is able to rationalize some stylized facts about fiscal policy in emerging economies: i) the volatility of tax revenues over GDP is higher in emerging economies than in developed ones; ii) fiscal policy is procyclical in emerging economies; iii) emerging economies may "graduate" from procyclical fiscal policy and adopt countercyclical policies in the long run.
But Frey is lazy about his lazy prose — so lazy, in fact, that some readers will be tempted to rationalize away his neglect and carelessness so as not to feel abused.
'Rational selection' proposes to rationalize therapeutic choices.
People tend to self-select into career tracks and to "rationalize their decisions" after the fact, he says.
