Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others said Leonard's argument about society shaping the content of television was not well-supported...
...developed between Jackson and the senior staff that had let things slip. Jackson ordered a safety and compliance review of all U.S. nuclear plants, offering utilities a two-year amnesty to correct problems they identify. "We must demonstrate vigilance, objectivity and consistency," she says. "I don't accept the argument that compliance is somehow at odds with safety...
Taylor and Russell, the top NRC officials who made that argument--and let Millstone happen--are gone. The regional administrator for New England has been demoted, and all of the Millstone resident inspectors have been reassigned. Yet some of Jackson's critics remain unimpressed. Chief among them is Galatis, a tenacious and deeply religious man who spent three years trying to get Northeast and the NRC to abide by NRC rules. To force the issue he had to go public, filing a petition that asked the NRC to suspend Millstone's license...
...fellow evening star. After CBS newsman DAN RATHER used the word "news-lite" several times to describe his competitors' newscasts in an otherwise genial interview in the Philadelphia Inquirer, TOM BROKAW's hackles were raised. Asked for comment, Brokaw remarked that he didn't "want to pick an argument with Dan," but he did recall the time that Connie Chung anchored an entire broadcast from the ice skating rink where Tonya Harding practiced. "Whenever there is the first hint of a counterclockwise symbol on a weather map that a hurricane might hit land," Brokaw added, "Mr. Hard News is down...
...through the recognition that no one side has an exclusive right over the Holy City, that true peace could be achieved. Israel's actions, and Levitin's argument take one step away from any such peace. --Ramy M. Tadros '96, president emeritus, Harvard/Radcliffe Society of Arab Students