Word: argumentative
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Lastly, we disagree with the CRIMSON editorial that our petition be accepted on grounds of academic freedom. We have petitioned on the basis of substantive arguments as to the deleterious effects of grading, and wish our petition to be weighed on the merits on this argument. To support our position on general libertarian grounds seems to use a particularly weak means of avoiding coming to terms with the political issues involved. Herb Gintis, for the Staff of Social Sciences...
...their wallowing fiscal deaths, Medicare and Medicaid may have made a valuable contribution. Many medical administrators regard Medicare as the final piece of argument needed in the case for a new system. As the government's programs have shown, money is futile unless coupled with long-range plans to improve distribution...
...argument had its beginnings in the Six-Day War with Israel, when As sad's best brigades were recalled from the front to protect the government in Damascus. Forced to bear the scorn of fellow Arab officers, Assad also chafed at his inability to get anywhere in his repeated requests for more modern arms. In Syria's feuding with Iraq, moreover, he saw his hopes for a united Arab "eastern command" dashed. Two weeks ago, when Israeli Mirage jets raided Arab commando camps in Syria and, ac cording to Tel Aviv, shot down two ob solescent...
...Chief Abdel Karim al Jundi, who was reportedly so depressed after one leadership quarrel that he shot himself. The two men also appealed to Cairo and Algiers to send mediators to settle the dispute. They arrived last week and apparently had some effect. Both sides agreed to air their argument in an emergency party congress, which Baathist leaders insisted be held "in an atmosphere of complete freedom"-in other words, with no show of military force...
...families who take in malades can truth fully say that their parents and grandparents did the same. "Here no one is afraid of mental patients," says Psychiatrist Herman Matheussen, 38, director of the program. When a schizophrenic plowing a field suddenly stops and begins gesticulating in a hallucinatory argument with an imaginary persecutor, his foster father may say calmly, "Joseph, why don't you finish that furrow...