Of the government's differing treatment of federal and private employees, the suit says, "Such arbitrary, irrational line-drawing cannot be reconciled".
Book X presents a theory of irrational lines and derives from the work of Theaetetus and Eudoxus.
Although no one has uttered the "irrational exuberance" line that Fed Chair Greenspan did in December 1996, it is generally felt that certain markets (like the debt markets) are irrationally priced.
When Alfred Sloan joined GM in 1924 as operating vice president, he inherited what he called an "irrational product line"–one that had no guiding policy for the marketing of its many brands.
They also argued that it was irrational that the line was running at-grade in densely populated areas, while it would run in a tunnel through the then mostly unpopulated Nydalen.
When the Prince looks out at what he considers "the real Sicily" — the landscape around Donnafugata — he sees it "aridly undulating to the horizon in hillock after hillock, comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung the waves into a frenzy".
Many other former employees, however, said Mrs. Wachner's wrath was kindled easily, was often irrational and often crossed the line between business and personal.
Humanity might be saved from the threatening and mindless rules of rationality, but those offering alternative forms of reasoning as guides to action, such as GRIT's account based on research into human perception and trust, were branded irrational when they were lined up against algorithmic rationality.
Lack of electronic records or detailed chart records on doses, durations and other information of non-recommended regimen made it difficult to understand the reasons and driving factors in the selection of treatment regimen and the extents of irrational uses of second-line drugs.
It's as irrational to draw a hard line between fiction and nonfiction as it is to put one between the sea and dry land — but it's even less reasonable to deny that there's a difference.
It's as irrational to draw a hard line between fiction and nonfiction as it is to put one between the sea and dry land but it's even less reasonable to deny that there's a difference.
