Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present state of technology is of little value, is untested and untestable and is not worth the investment; moreover, it can be easily circumvented by the other side and, instead of bringing security, might well accelerate the arms race. Probably the document's key argument is that there is no compelling need to deploy the ABM -for now at least-whether it would work...
...want to give Safeguard up for some trigger-happy system where you have to salvo all our Minuteman missiles," he said. On the crucial issue of whether the U.S. can preserve its assured destruction capability in the '70s, Foster said of the Wiesner-Chayes argument: "They may be right, but they can't prove...
...gives a damn if you've taken soul courses. They want to know if you can do mathematics and write a correct sentence." Rustin's statement was heavy with logic-for older, middle-class Americans. The trouble was that the radical young reject this kind of argument as bourgeois and Uncle Tomish...
...motives to see if they can be crushed into finer powder--the acceptance of the final negative -- Transplant says that when you don't have any more excuses for yourself, you're dead, that's why even rich addicts lie and steal. No. No. Each and every argument for anything at all ends with the final no. Death. NO. No. Everything is no: no love, no hate, no energy, no sense, no time, no space, no place, no people, no you; even yes is no: yes to the needle, yes to the cookery, yes to every no that has ever...
...this shit about trudth? anyway hunh?" said Jos, the big affables truck drivers who (as you remember from my last story in this magazine) are always smiling and sending out god vibrations, to, among other people, the Beach Boys. now what it's most important to understand about that argument is that it never really existed (ha! the end came on slow and fooled...