Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second most common cause of death among young adults in North America, after car wrecks. Fifteen percent of Americans have had a clinical anxiety disorder. And, pathological, even murderous alienation is a hallmark of our time. In that sense, the Unabomber is Exhibit A in his own argument...
...true, it is equally true whether the reverse discrimination is public or private. Is Oseola McCarty's blacks-only scholarship really sending the wrong signal? Is it really doing the young blacks of southern Mississippi who will benefit from it more harm than good? Well, that's the argument...
...courses, Stanley Kaplan and The Princeton Review, report enrollment increases of 10 percent, and test prep book sales are up 25 percent. The results also may exacerbate the "Bell Curve" debate over black student performance, Ostling adds: "The relatively poor showing for blacks raises again the nature versus nurture argument...
...back away from a heretofore key Democratic argument: that Republicans want to use Medicare savings to pay for tax cuts. Republicans have strenuously denied that charge, but haven't yet given specifics of their plan, which is due to be unveiled next month...
...best argument against fears of this oligopolistic future is that today's giants seem to be chasing an ever expanding market, never quite sure which technologies will come out ahead. The 500-channel world may not be imminent, but as new distribution systems like digital broadcast satellites and digital cable come into use, programming outlets will multiply. TCI's John Malone, who heads up what has long been the nation's largest cable company, is choosing to highlight the red-hot Internet, investing in his own Internet company as well as the Microsoft Network. "There is a growing distrust...