Word: argument
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...mind, he or she can always contract another storage company—of which there are many that will insure stored belongings. It is unreasonable to argue that the College, which already goes to great lengths to provide storage and protect stored items, should do even more. This argument, however, does not apply to those students who cannot afford any other option besides House storage. Consequently, the College should look into offering a stipend for qualifying students who want to store or ship their belongings off campus but cannot afford to do so. Nonetheless, the College’s storage...
Consider what happened five days into the Bush presidency in 2001 when the spending-averse Greenspan told a Senate committee that government surpluses were getting so huge, a tax cut was probably a good idea. Given the state of knowledge at the time, this wasn't an unreasonable argument--and when the surpluses became deficits, Greenspan changed his tune. But Democratic critics said his words provided cover for the President and Congress to squander the fruits of a decade of fiscal responsibility in months. While this exaggerates Greenspan's influence, it isn't entirely wrong, and Greenspan admits as much...
...Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey Miron said that he still would have liked to see Bernanke not do anything, but conceded that there were some reasonable justifications for the cut. “I don’t like the argument that the Fed needed to prevent a further subprime lending crisis,” he said, “but if this is to stop the economy from slowing down, that is more defensible.” Professor of Economics James H. Stock also sympathized with arguments for and against...
...freedom of the press, Peskov made a rather dubious argument that the national TV networks just couldn't support themselves financially, and that's why the government had to take them over, a move it would love to undo, he said. Peskov at least doesn't deny that new government-owned media hews closely to the administration's script. It's a natural state of affairs, he says. "Sky Channel never criticizes Rupert Murdoch," he said. "And ABC never criticizes Mickey Mouse." But he says that the smaller regional television stations that are independent are highly critical. "If you monitor...
...Illinois today, a federal judge is expected to hear an intriguing argument in the abortion debate. At issue: Is Aurora, Ill., a city of nearly 175,000 about an hour's drive west of Chicago, trying to stop Tuesday's scheduled opening of the nation's largest Planned Parenthood clinic because of political pressure from anti-abortion activists? Or was the clinic's true nature - that is, its Planned Parenthood genesis - not readily apparent to city officials when they originally approved permits for the building? Or is it a bit of both? The case is already one of the most...