Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...higher salaries for teachers are often met by claims that teachers' salaries are adequate because teachers do not work as much as other professionals. Third, an increase in teachers' salaries would necessarily mean an increase in taxes that the people are simply unwilling to pay. Such fears and arguments have largely prevented teachers from speaking out in favor of higher salaries, but this does not mean the argument in favor of raising teachers' salaries should be abandoned; rather, it should be revitalized...
...Another argument against raising teacher's salaries is simply that taxpayers do not want to be taxed more in order to pay teachers higher salaries. Such an argument can be used in any debate over increased government spending and the benefits of raising teacher salaries justify its cost. Massachusetts has already declared its commitment to education by spending millions upon millions of dollars; the problem is not finding the money to pay teachers more, but ensuring that funds are channeled into the areas where they can make the most difference. For example, Lowell High School has recently undergone...
...what Null recommends people do in response to the poor medical care they're receiving. In Get Healthy Now! he endorses a range of fringe cancer therapies, including anti-neoplastons (peptides derived in part from human urine). He takes a similarly radical approach to AIDS, raising a long-discredited argument that one of the reasons traditional therapies are ineffective is that it has never been proved that HIV plays as great a role in the disease as scientists believe...
...Columbine tragedy didn't start out as a front-page story about the battle between good and evil. But it has been moving there, as the trauma overflowed the argument about guns and culture and spilled into other realms. With each passing day of shock and grief you could almost hear the church bells tolling in the background, calling the country to a different debate, a careful conversation in which even Presidents and anchormen behave as though they are in the presence of something bigger than they are, and maybe should lower their voices a little and speak with less...
...larger battles, the killers were not themselves evil; they were instruments of it, of the dark force we met in Narnia and try not to think about once we grow up, until the day we have no choice. Hence the 15 crosses planted up on the hill, and the argument about whether the killers deserved to have their crosses alongside those of the victims, whether they needed them most...