Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Mohammed Ayub Khan and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri. "We have planted parks and gardens, over 2,000,000 trees, 1,500,000 shrubs and 80 million flowers," wrote Asamov in an open letter. "Moreover, we Uzbeks have a saying: If two neighbors have an argument, go to the third, and you will always achieve peace...
...argument U.S. bankers could make was that they were more progressive and flexible than European competitors. Following long tradition, European banks are capricious with commercial loans, often tend to favor companies in which they hold stock interests. U.S. bankers generally provided faster service and better terms. For European companies interested in international trade, American bankers also offered the advantage of worldwide branches, faster interchange Of capital and more exact credit ratings on overseas customers. The argument has been persuasive. France's government-owned Renault, establishing an automobile-assembly plant in Buenos Aires, turned to Bank of America to handle...
...argument offered by these students goes to the heart of the Medical School's aproach to education; they charge that the rigidity of Harvard's preclinical curriculum and its uncritical over-use of formal teaching methods, especially lectures, stunts intellectual initiative. "We now learn more because we are told to do so than because we are curious," they wrote in a letter to Dean Ebert in December. "It is disappointing to think that our education is based upon the assumption that medical students can learn no more than what they are taught...
...third argument listed in the letter is what Goldfarb calls the "male emotional stability factor." Goldfarb does not think that this argument can be used to keep boys out of Radcliffe Library because "boys cause less disturbance in a female environment than vice versa." Several HUC members noted that it is "impossible to study" in co-ed libraries they have visited...
...thus giving consumers $11.5 billion more to spend and corporations $3 billion more to invest. In addition, they put through a long-overdue reduction in excise taxes, slicing $1.5 billion this year and another $1.5 billion in the year beginning Jan. 1. In an application of the Keynesian argument that an economy is likely to grow best when the government pumps in more money than it takes out, they boosted total federal spending to a record high of $121 billion and ran a deficit of more than $5 billion. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board kept money easier and cheaper than...