1.   In the cold calculus of risk, it helps that China Airlines is not American.

2.   In the cold calculus of the bond markets, it should make little difference whether the government spends its resources on health care, helium reserves or hot dogs.

3.   Just as shocking, though, the cold calculus of war begins to establish terrible order on the blasting chaos.

4.   What Sherman devised is a cold calculus reflecting the needed administrative order.

5.   What Sherman devised, on three spreadsheets, is a cold calculus reflecting the administrative order needed by a city in emotional confusion.