Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that a good argument for keeping the practice illegal? No, says Grossman: "It's incredibly arrogant to say nobody's going to be careful so we shouldn't let patients make this decision for themselves." What doctors do need is a set of standards that make clear the role a physician should play in letting a patient go. How imminent should death be? How do physicians make sure a patient is mentally competent and really wants to die? What alternatives should be suggested? What sort of counseling is appropriate? The American Medical Association presently frowns upon doctors who participate...
...record, McVeigh maintains his innocence. But if Jones should fall back upon the argument that his client played a part in the crime, but only a lesser one, he might at least spare him the death penalty. As a matter of law, if McVeigh committed the crimes with which he is charged, he would still be guilty even if he acted as an underling in a larger conspiracy. But if Jones can promote sufficient doubts and sympathies within the minds of the jurors, what the law directs may not matter...
...fearing Americans here at The Harvard Crimson are concerned that bleeding-heart liberals will use this statistic to bolster their obviously flawed and unconstitutional argument that we should somehow try to reduce the number of guns floating around this country just because a child died from gunfire every 92 minutes...
...another argument, you say that the word is unwiedly. So are the words spaghetti and Massachusetts. Perhaps we shouldn't use those to describe the noodle or the state. I simply suggest that you try a little harder, and maybe you will soon be able to pronounce "first-year" quite handily. I have no difficulties, and willing to be your speech coach if you do not soon meet with success...
...your argument that first-year still conjures up the image of a male, if Harvard accepted equal numbers of male and female students, this problem might not seem so severe...