Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conservatives (both Democrats and Republicans) have a lot to gain from spooking you. Conservatives know full well that the only way to roll back Social Security is to undermine its public confidence. The Murray argument will not work with Social Security because the program works (in the last 40 years, the elderly poverty rate has plummeted by two-thirds). Those who are out to get Social Security are not arguing that the program doesn't work (as they did in the welfare debate); they are scaring you into believing that Social Security is unsustainable...
...which focuses on Indian film music and gave everyone in the ensemble a chance to show off their singing, dancing and clowning skills. Vipin Goyal '98 and Shilpa Jain '98 wee particularly spectacular in their exuberant and riotous re-creation of a film dance, acting out a marital infidelity, argument and reconciliation...
Invoking morality as an argument against the resolution or referring to the lifestyle of people who choose to consider themselves transgendered as "detrimental," as some have done, is likely to accomplish little, apart from being hurtful and politically unwise. These tactics assuredly will not rally the sort of opposition to the resolution that is so warranted, however justified the opponents feel they may be in using this approach...
...rules of argument generally hold that you need three examples to prove your point. When yet another bomb exploded in Atlanta late last Friday night, this time in a crowded gay and lesbian bar, it was the third such incident in the past seven months. A particularly hateful and frightening point may have been made...
Harvard University is, in itself, a multicultural student center. unfortunately this argument is too simplistic in this rather complex debate. Sure, semantically, Harvard University is a multicultural student center to the extent that there are students and they are of different backgrounds. But the same argument could be made of any place with students of varying heritage, including the Citadel or the Peruvian embassy, where intercultural understanding are not likely to take place...