Word: argument
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...dismal science, but that's a bit glib. You certainly get some strange claims - like the contention of three economists that autism may be caused by watching too much television at a tender age. It gets stranger still when you look at the data upon which this argument is based. The as yet unpublished Cornell University study, which will be presented Friday at a health economics conference in Cambridge, Mass., is constructed from an analysis of reported autism cases, cable TV subscription data and weather reports. Yes, weather reports. And yet, it all makes some kind of sense...
...about their sexuality is not an adequate response to deny affirmative action. I’m certain misrepresentation is just as likely to happen in other categories as well. Being gay in this country is not easy. As one famous pamphlet of Queer Nation would respond to an argument like yours, “Go tell them to go away until they have spent a month walking hand and hand in public with someone of the same...
...same question could be asked generally of the entire genre of musical theater. Is it a legitimate artistic form with its own set of composition rules, or merely the bastard child of tragedy and opera?The 1975 musical “A Chorus Line” offers a convincing argument for both sides. On the one hand, it captures do-or-die Broadway dance auditions through intimate portraits of individual dancers’ stories without losing sight of the show’s larger social implications. On the other, “A Chorus Line” is determinedly...
...agency. Her lawyer, Cary Flitter, argued that, because the agency never intended to sue, only to scare her and some 13,000 others who had received similar letters in Pennsylvania, it had engaged in a "deceptive" practice prohibited by federal law. A U.S. district court had already dismissed this argument, pointing out that the letter said merely that nonpayment "could result in a legal suit, "which was certainly true, so Flitter was swimming upstream. But on Sept. 29, the appeals court reversed the district court, and told Brown she had a case...
...There is also a clearly stated view among some Chinese foreign policy analysts that U.S. financial sanctions over the past year, and its refusal to offer Pyongyang security guarantees, played a role in provoking North Korea's test. Whatever the merits and demerits of this argument, there's clearly a current in Beijing sharply critical of the U.S. handling of the diplomatic process over the past three years. So, when Condi Rice comes calling and asks what China is going to do to make the sanctions work, she may also find officials in Beijing responding with their own question, asking...