While these policies might make for effective scapegoating of immigrants or good political theater, there really isn't much of a sound rationale for them.
"While these policies might make for effective scapegoating of immigrants or good political theater, there really isn't much of a sound rationale for them," says Jens Hainmueller, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor of political economy by courtesy and co-director of the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab.
In a letter sent late on Monday, Sony's chief, Kazuo Hirai, dismissed much of the rationale for a partial initial public offering of the business.
Moreover, officials acknowledge that the summit meeting has helped fuel some doubts over much of the rationale for a missile defense, which is that the North Korean government was so irrational and unpredictable that it would not respond to normal threats of deterrence.
Likewise, much of the rationale for developing a routine was to "set the tone" and build a sense that students were expected to participate meaningfully throughout class.
But understandably, given the gun violence that has convulsed the country in recent days and weeks, much more is being said than that, much of it imputing a rationale to the seven justices who had, in fact, remained silent.
Shamefully, this prediction provided much of the rationale for the relentless escalation and super spike in prices a year-and-a-half later.
Much of the rationale for these changes had been summed up a few years earlier by Benjamin O. Canada, the superintendent of Atlanta schools, who was quoted in the 7 April 1998 New York Times as saying, "We are intent on improving academic performance.
Much of the rationale for PEP use in humans is derived from a case-control study of health care workers occupationally exposed to HIV, which demonstrated that a 28-day course of zidovudine was protective (odds ratio [OR]: 0.19, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.06 0.52).
"Much of the rationale," he said, "is less the notion of keeping an individual from getting sick than it is, 'If we vaccinate this person, their illness won't cause other people to get sick.' " The program in Seattle is intended to help about 40 homeowners threatened with foreclosure.
