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Carvalho: “Mixed. As a classroom teacher, I’ve seen positive changes around testing. Supt. Carvalho has rationalized the disparate student assessment systems plus requirements, creating a streamlined system that is much more efficient.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Bluebird has rationalized the high price of Zynteglo by referring to the lifetime cost of transfusions and chelation therapy, which the company says can run as high as $6.4 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
They were a reminder of our vestigial selves, of how humankind has rationalized catastrophe through most of its history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ford, for instance, under the leadership of Alan Mulally, has rationalized the company, dumping Jaguar, Aston Martin, Land Rover and some of its stake in Mazda.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever may be thought of the orthodoxy of the doctrines he has rationalized, there can be no doubt as to the reality of the spiritual states he has described.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
