Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Each case will be considered the normal way, " he said. "The decision is made based on the quality of the argument and the actual need...
Many schools use upperclass students this way. But Harvard has characteristically chosen this more expensive method to care for its young, the argument being that older, more experienced adults have more to offer-both in wisdom and in safety-to novice Harvardians...
...time. Yet even around the tests lies an aura of nostalgia. I still remember discussing with a new friend, later to be a Quincy House roommate, several questions from the first QRR test I was to fail. En route to lunch, we had a heated, if good-spirited, argument about standard deviations...
...addition, a double standard is at work in the Thernstroms' assertions about black shortcomings and white attitudes. For blacks, the Thernstroms have concrete data--marriage rates, test scores and employment figures. But a major part of their argument--that white racism has largely disappeared--rests on the answers that whites give pollsters when queried about intolerance. It's an axiom of the business that people give pollsters answers they believe to be socially acceptable. "Even Jesse Helms wants a black neighbor--as long as it's Colin Powell," says political scientist Andrew Hacker...
...mother of one of the Washington Square teenagers concurs. "This is the hard thing for parents, when you realize you don't have a lot of control. Sometimes we get into a big argument, with the worst thing happening being her throwing a few things, breaking a dish. [It's] the old motherdaughter story: if you don't hate your mother, you're gonna become your mother. She has to make sure she's not her mother...