Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flaw with the mutual exclusivity argument lies in intent. Guccis do not and cannot enter a corporate job with the intent of bettering the lives of others. As a result, if efficiency called for layoffs, Guccis must recommend that path. In this sense, social justice and corporate employment may not be mutually exclusive like oil and water, but it is not complementary like peanut butter and jelly...
...speech] was great," said Michael A. Rosen '99. "[Physical strength] is one aspect of gender difference you don't get to hear about much. You usually hear about social differences. [The idea that all women can be as strong as men] is definitely an interesting argument...
Annapurna K. Hill (Letters, Nov. 16) expresses her intention to make a financial contribution to "UHS's abortion fund." She reasons that this money is necessary to ensure that students make informed decisions regarding the continuation of their pregnancies. Unfortunately, her argument reverses the reality of the situation...
...politics," she says, "because the facts constantly contradict the conventional wisdom." Of the dozen cover stories she has edited this year, Painton is most proud of two that did not come out of Washington: on the state of feminism and on gay politics. "One was meant to be an argument starter, and the other examined the complexity of gay issues. I'm interested in covering things that people really talk about...
...them can be extremely small, while the probability of life forming on at least one of them is extremely large; and yes, this implies that since we know that life can form (we exist), it probably has formed elsewhere. But while this is a reasonably convincing intuitive argument for the existence of extraterrestrial life, it is, in essence, simply a mathematical restatement of Ellie's comment in Contact--"The Universe is a pretty big place...so if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space." The argument makes sense. It's conclusion is probably even correct...