Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...witnessed carrying his "Will Argue for Five minutes for One Dollar" sign around Harvard Square, the Argument Guy offers repartee without the hefty Harvard term bill. Last Thursday, Argument Guy met his match...
...should argue for or against it," Steinem said. "But we should not use the Bible as our argument...
...best argument in favor of student government is that someone ought to represent student opinion on issues affecting the College to the administration, which has real governing power. The council performed this role admirably and courageously during last year's ROTC debate, ultimately passing a resolution urging the administration to facilitate students' participation in the corps. However, shortly after the resolution passed in council vote, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 met with the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporter's Alliance and quickly announced that despite the council's opinion, no changes in University policy would...
Others worry that rogue nations would violate a test ban treaty, conducting surreptitious tests and building their arsenals while the world lay complacent. This argument is frivolous. The treaty calls for a global network of sensitive seismic monitoring stations that would detect any nuclear test large enough to be militarily useful. If, indeed, the Chinese government did steal secrets from our nation's nuclear laboratories, only a ban on testing could prevent those secrets from being put to use. Furthermore, any illicit testing that the treaty's enforcement provisions would miss could certainly occur (and undoubtedly would) if the treaty...
...different breed. They predict that the Dow will go to 36,000 in short order, gaining something like 35% a year for the next four years. Now there's a thin bough. They believe investors are revaluing stocks to a permanently higher plateau. It's a fun argument but boils down to familiar ground: diversified portfolios are superior and safe if held for long periods. A growing awareness of that idea is bringing more investors into the market at ever higher prices, inflating the average stock's price-to-earnings multiple from 10 to 30, and, the authors assert, soon...