Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, in 1972, the Supreme Court in William v. Yoder allowed the Old Order Amish to remove their children from public schools after the eighth grade, even in the face of compulsory education laws that required further schooling. The decision was based on the argument that schooling for Amish children might undermine the traditional Amish way of life...
...student of the time said that the proposal gives no understanding of the amount of work that goes into the grade. You guessed it: the same argument is being offered today...
...there is anything impeachable about Ignatiev's argument, it's that his evidence could support an even stronger conclusion. According to his own scholarship, the Irish did more than simply become white; they adopted an already oppressive caste structure and polarized it along color lines, so that they became even whiter than native northern whites had ever been. There are also structural problems early in the book, such as a preponderance of evidence which obscures the broader arguments. Awkward syntax and glaring grammatical errors like transitive verbs left dangling without objects appear in the early chapters but vanish...
...shadow of last summer's decision by the Board of Regents of the University of California to repeal affirmative action in the nine-campus system, Rudenstine is almost negligent in his fourth argument for affirmative action. Although he admits that "the potential for unfairness exists," he quickly glosses over that and then reiterates his points that admissions must take into account a wide variety of characteristics and that admissions decisions about individuals must be made in the context of the whole...
According to police, Du Pont shot Schultz three times with a .38-cal. revolver during an argument outside Schultz's home on the Foxcatcher property. He then holed up in his gun-filled mansion (modeled after James Madison's Montpelier) about a mile away. Because Du Pont never bothered to restore telephone service after a fire damaged his home in October, police first established contact by cellular phone, then got the phone company to repair the line in the middle of the night...