Word: arguments
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Losing Leverage. Another argument against blanket withdrawal of investments is raised by Wichita Lawyer William Thompson, the new Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church. He contends that by taking funds out of a bank or selling shares in a company whose policies they may not approve, the churches lose their leverage to change the minds of corporation officials...
...graduates; the other goes only to those who graduate at the top of their classes. This has been the longtime practice at several leading Midwestern schools. The question is, how to tell the difference? Obviously by the quality of the graduate's training-in which case the argument is right back where it started...
Schwarzbach's argument helped convince a Chicago jury that it should acquit Escobedo of unlawful use of weapons. Last March, as he was sitting in his car outside a restaurant where one of his friends got into a brawl, Danny himself was arrested for disorderly conduct and charged with having a loaded pistol under the front seat. But, testified Danny, he had lawfully bought the gun in his own name, and was simply transporting it. Besides, it was broken into four parts, wrapped in a rag under the seat, and therefore was a non-weapon...
...shot. In the process, he somehow kicked a Japanese forward. Japan was awarded a penalty boot, and the Iranian captain was banished from the field for protesting the penalty. At game's end, the president of the Iran Football Federation approached the Thai referee to continue the argument, and the referee smacked him in the snoot. At that point, as they say in the Pentagon, the battle escalated. Players and spectators leaped into the fray, and helmeted riot police waded in with clubs. The Iranians lost the fight as well as the game...
Tough to Follow. Romnes noted that Kappel will be "a tough act to follow," and there was little argument about that. In the ten years that the outgoing chairman held one of the world's most prestigious corporate posts, A.T. & T. added 30 million telephones, $17 billion in assets, and 3,000,000 shareholders-twice as many as it had when he came into the job. But if company-wide experience is a criterion, A.T. & T. has made another wise choice...