Word: argumentation
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After much consultation, argument and people wandering in saying, "Yeah, but what about so-and-so?," the editors and staff of TIME have chosen 25 men and women as the most influential people in America. To those who think other candidates deserved a place, feel free to nominate them for the next time around...
...G.O.P. a bright flag to plant in the Whitewater muck. For one thing, they rejected a central tenet of Clinton's Whitewater theology. By basing their decision on documentary evidence and discounting the testimony of both Clinton and the defendants' chief accuser, David Hale, they undermined the White House argument that the investigation is a baseless, partisan witch hunt. Now it doesn't matter so much that no one can follow the storyline, says G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour, because "they said 'guilty' 24 times...
...problem with the first argument is that the fit between costs and aid is not close enough. In most states the cost of education is controlled by one bureaucracy and the dispensing of financial aid by another; increases in aid almost always lag behind increases in costs. Moreover, the parents of students who use state universities as a gateway into the middle class are often unfamiliar with the process of putting together a financing mechanism. Also, some state-university systems have responded to budget cuts by simply reducing their student body. In 1992 and '93, to cite the most notorious...
After six weeks of bitter argument, the school committee responded to declining enrollment by slashing 23.5 teaching positions--a move which left many teachers and elected officials demoralized and divided...
...over racial preferences, he conveniently built his case around the much-touted value of diversity. As Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 has pointed out in these pages, Rudenstine engaged in a certain amount of equivocation in his apology for affirmative action, drawing support for his argument from thinkers who defined "diversity" in very different terms...