Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Western Ave. resident reported that she and her son engaged in an argument over hir chores. The son threatened her with violence...
...Horgan Street. resident said a woman threatened her with scissors after the two became involved in an argument. The complainant was smoking near a window when the suspect confronted...
...finally starting to get the real argument against impeachment. Not the one that begins "Wouldn't you have lied in Clinton's situation?" or the one that goes, "Most great presidents have had affairs." Not the poll data showing that 6 in 10 Americans oppose impeachment. No, the argument that is convincing me that Clinton must stay in office is the procedural one: Congress should not, except in the rarest and clearest of circumstances, overturn the results of a fair and free election...
There is a reasonable argument for why stellar undergraduates should be allowed to grade objective work in elementary math or science courses, where a single answer key exists: they can probably do the job as well as any graduate student, and there is a shortage of available graduate students. Less defensible is the argument that these undergraduates should be allowed to teach courses in sections to other undergraduates; nevertheless, this practice is widely accepted in the computer science department, and it occurs in the natural sciences...
...humanities, the social sciences and the Core, no argument is strong enough to justify undergraduates either grading essays or teaching sections. The Educational Policy Committee (EPC) recognizes this in a passage on page 22 of the 1998-1999 Information for Faculty Offering Instruction in the Arts and Sciences...