Rationalize

"Rationalize" is often management-speak for "cut" - but that's exactly what should happen in a recession.

Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009

The G20 leader's agreed at last year's summit to: "Rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption ..."

Jake Schmidt: G20 Leaders to Meet and Discuss Global Warming, But Only a Little Bit 2010

Torture -- Some Things You Just Can't Rationalize by boomerang on Sunday, Apr 26, 2009 at 2: 40: 18 PM

OpEdNews - Quicklink: GOP Leader John Boehner Does Cheney's Bidding 2009

Rationalize this episode as you wish, and blame it on TPM if you must, but UFO-and-roses-sensing ability is not a quality I seek out in a presidential candidate.

Kucinich Had A UFO Encounter, According To Friend Shirley MacLaine 2009

Rationalize the whole thing, as Mr. Daley's administration has done, by insisting that government can't run such things as well as the private sector can.

Thomas Frank: The Real Chicago Way 2009

Rationalize why they should care about others rights to life and liberty when no one gives a d*mn about theirs.

Byron Williams: The Oakland Protestors and the Arc of the Moral Universe 2009

Rationalize the multiplicity of sub-regional and regional organizations with competing environmental mandates and interests, ensuring synergy among them, and the ways in which they all feed into decision-making processes of the AU.

Africa's renaissance for the environment~ environment for peace and regional cooperation 2009

In recent weeks, the chorus of calls for further "protections" for copyright owners has grown louder (see, for example, Mark Helprin's May 11 broadside in the Wall Street Journal against copyright critics: "Copyright Critics Rationalize Theft").

Gary Shapiro: Copyright Needs Limits, As It Restricts Innovation 2009

Rationalize the crazy structure of public service broadcasting so that the sector could yield a more effective national competitor on the broadcasting side, with a duty to promote a more informed and educated citizenry

Monroe Price: Journalism Bailout Bill: The News and Information for Democracy Act of 2011? 2009

Rationalize this episode as you wish, and blame it on TPM if you must, but UFO-and-roses-sensing ability is not a quality I seek out in a presidential candidate.

Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Kucinich Had A UFO Encounter, According To Friend Shirley MacLaine 2009