Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elated that Lewis and Skocpol agree with us that "Public service programs at Harvard will not benefit from never-ending arguments about administration." Now if Harvard will stop inciting that argument through the ludicrous number of studies, re-studies, and tinkerings with our structure over the past few years, we can get on with our mission: delivering the best public service programs in any college in America. --Gene...
...really cut the size of the government as it exists today. It only reduces the share of gross domestic product that government would have taken if existing spending patterns had gone unchanged. The Republican proposal does promise a balanced budget in 2002, a signal accomplishment. Most important, the argument is settled about whether balance is desirable. Bill Clinton has signed on. But fiscal sanity is not the goal. Reducing the scope of the government is. So there is much more to do. How much, exactly? Newt Gingrich doesn't say. But his chief lieutenant, majority leader Dick Armey of Texas...
Second, I think that we have changed the whole debate in American politics. There is now a universal agreement you've got to balance the budget. The argument is over exactly how much, exactly when. There is no one thinking to raise taxes. The Clinton '93 tax increase would now be unthinkable in this environment...
...anti-interventionist argument extends however, beyond such superficial points. Surely, our military technology can avoid the mistakes of Somalia and Vietnam. Opposition to the mission is correctly rooted in an evaluation of America's vital national interests with respect to Bosnia. And upon analysis, it demands that America soldiers remain at home...
Modern critics point out that this approach can be scientifically perilous. Says John Woodhead, assistant director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem: "It's a circular argument. Yadin used the data to prove the verse, and the verse to prove the dating of the cities." In fact, says David Ussishkin, director of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology, the gates at the the three cities don't come from a single period at all. "Hazor is probably Solomonic," he says. "Megiddo is definitely later. Gezer is either/or...