Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union of Concerned Scientists called the test meaningless because the LOFT reactor has less than 2% of the output of a typical atomic plant. Said his colleague Robert Pollard: "It's like using a kite to prove a moon rocket will work." But LOFT scientists rejected that argument. Said one: "It isn't necessary to crash 747s against buildings to test their safety." One thing was indisputable: the emergency core cooling system did work. Just to make sure that it does the job under different conditions, the Commission will stage about 20 more LOFT tests through the 1980s...
...alternative to the Shah." All right, fine. But what if, even though there is no alternative to the Shah, there should be no Shah tomorrow? Or next week? Then what? Such questions usually elicit a stubborn repetition of the statement: "There is no alternative to the Shah." That argument, which is beginning to sound like a slogan, really means: There is no acceptable alternative to the Shah. To say that there is no alternative at all is illogical, and unworthy of the men who reiterate it so dogmatically. But it is that dogma-"There is no alter native...
SWAPO tried to discourage foreign journalists from covering the election, contending that their presence would legitimize the proceedings. The SWAPO argument was echoed at the U.N. by the ambassadors from Zambia, Nigeria and Tanzania, who declared that reporters who attempted to cover the campaign would be doing a "disservice" to the U.N. While that seemed in line with a dubious belief that is steadily gaining ground in Third World countries?that the world press should be tightly controlled?SWAPO leaders inside Namibia privately expressed a belief that the presence of foreign reporters gave them some protection during the campaign, though...
...orthodox belief, one as old as the Book of Job or as current as next week's list of senseless murders: Why does evil exist at all? If God is benevolent, and if he is all powerful, why does he not prevent evil? If evil exists, so the argument runs, then either God's love or his power must be limited...
...streets with all those women going into the workforce," Klemesrud quotes Mable Morgan, author of The Total Woman. Morgan adds, "They know they have to look good--they're out there in the open. Sex is one of those driving forces that must be taken into account." The argument is as old as the hills, if not older. Women have always tried to use their sex as a driving force to con men into paying some sort of attention to them. It would indeed be a peculiar phenomenon if women were now to be competing solely with other women...