Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro psychiatrist for the 4th Infantry Division, though agreeing that many Negro officers and enlisted men complain of discrimination, says: "Many times I have found that the complaint because of race is not really that, but that race has been used by some as a crutch." To the argument that Negroes are too poor for college deferments must be added the fact that they like the military enough to re-enlist at a rate three times that of the white servicemen...
...State Department has been reluctant to hold back essential supplies, and thereby possibly weaken the army, on the grounds that a serious cut-off might also weaken NATO. This argument overestimates the importance of the Greek army in the NATO structure, as well as the long-term effect of a provisionary cut-off. Diplomats also contend that the fall of the junta might lead to civil war. But to buttress the present dictatorship with military aid in the name of stability would be morally wrong and also eventually lead to a more bitter reaction from the oppressed people...
First, be outraged that any jury could have voted against your man. Say that the members were too ignorant or prejudiced to understand the defense argument. Then say that it doesn't matter terribly anyway, since you are going to appeal and get this obviously incorrect verdict overturned. This will give the impression that you have somehow not lost the case after all. Having created this spark, do not allow it to go out for lack of attention. Fan it like crazy...
...about the effects of third parties is for the most part unquestionable. But all previous efforts have been launched in the hope of electoral success, however that was defined. To run an independent candidate with any impact at all requires a degree of enthusiasm which the Levinson-Kearns argument fails to inspire. And when the votes come in, the enthusiasm collapses in spades...
Although we intend to draw comparisons between the rate of compensation for teaching fellows and that for other teachers both at Harvard and other institutions, for many of us the most immediate argument for an increase in compensation is the conviction that we are not receiving a reasonable living wage. Of course, an easy answer to this basic argument is that Harvard pays its teaching fellows far more than a miimum wage, in fact $6000 a year, for that is what a full-time appointment as a teaching fellow would pay at the senior rate...