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Rationalization or not, he had a few things more to do.

Wait just a second, girl, the voice of rationalization began.

In addition, he is the head of the energy rationalization committee.

Or maybe it was really the only thing, and the others are just rationalizations.

"The market has gone through a process of rationalization," he added.

Yes, but that's a rationalization, one you just now thought of.

There are rationalizations for everything today, and where has it got us?

It was a rationalization she had tried before and never more than half believed.

"There's another whole round of rationalization the business can do."

Of course, this was not their rationalization when they were first introduced.

Everything else is a rationalization; he has no choice but to keep moving forward.

He had no interest in David's guilt, or his rationalizations.

Sure, she had to defend herself, but the other was just rationalization.

Let me say that we have no plans for rationalizations in the sales force.

But no rationalizations exist now; the general saw to that.

I have my mind clear enough without need of her rationalizations."

By period seven, he had brought all the civilized rationalizations into play.

And that sort of rationalization doesn't help much at all.

The favored rationalization seemed to be that after all, this was just show business.

Might not rationalization of services be a more accurate description?

Now it was a rationalization for an action she couldn't believe she'd taken.

So much for Armstrong's attempt at rationalization five years earlier.

And as you say, he's found some rationalization that will let him stop resisting.

We talked about rationalizations but that does not apply to research or to development.

"All you got to do is see that score," he said in rationalization.

For that reason, any sort of rationalisation is also welcome.

There's a lot of rationalisation and blame going on here.

A rationalisation of the model ranges also took place around this time.

There was to be "rationalisation within the service and more involvement with the community without".

After some rationalisation the number of congregations dropped to 27.

Obviously, in the case of education, there is a rationalisation programme.

This period also saw the rationalisation of Public sector wages.

In the past, investment aid has been provided for purposes of rationalisation.

In 1988, a five year strategic business plan was announced which saw a rationalisation of stores.

The company made its first loss in 1971, necessitating some rationalisation.

This too has seen significant rationalisation over recent years.

By 1985, following all the acquisitions, rationalisation had become a business necessity.

These were different in style and readership, but there was a strong case for rationalisation.

After nearly four years, these rationalisation attempts have finally borne fruit.

This global approach is developing thanks to the rationalisation of policy coordination.

Rationalisation was based on geographical locale over the 12 years.

The establishment of a single structure replacing all three was a major rationalisation.

In these works Weber described what he saw as society's movement towards rationalisation.

So, far from the promised rationalisation of legislation, we seem to be seeing more proliferation.

See also: rationalisation and transfer within the techniques of propaganda generation.

In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery.

After traffic was restored, rationalisation measures started in the early fifties.

Although rationalisation of motor vehicle companies had started, full integration did not occur.

The same kind of rationalisation needs to occur with the agencies funded to deliver.

Rationalisation of activities saw new body construction cease at Bristol in 1956.