Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, Overview is little more than a grand concept. Whether or not it will ever work is a moot point. But it is hard to disagree with the basic Overview argument that without practical visionary planning, both preventive and prescient, the future will be shaped by default...
Howard Hughes Bet. Why had an experienced naval officer allowed this condition to exist? Johnson had been lulled into complacency by many factors. His principal argument was wholly unrelated to strategy or circumstance. No U.S. Navy ship, declared Johnson, had been captured in peacetime in 150 years. Thus, in his view, Pueblo's seizure was "highly improbable"-regardless of the belligerent mood of North Korea. "I would suggest," said Johnson, "that a bookmaker would give you such fantastic odds [against the possibility of capture] that someone as rich as Howard Hughes could not pay it off." Admitting that...
...without a shred of truth." Washington agreed that the executed men were not in a position to spy for anyone. Throughout the world, they were widely considered to be innocent because the trials had been held in secret; if the Iraqis had had any really convincing evidence, runs one argument, they would have made it public...
...negotiated directly with the Arabs. In essence, the Israelis contend that their extended borders vastly lessen the danger of war: the Arabs are not in a position to fight, and Israel, with defense in depth, has no need to hit first as it did in 1967. Israel's argument is convincing, except for its presumption of rationality on all sides...
...document his argument, Hyams reviewed 400 consecutive operations on the uterus at Woman's Hospital, part of the St. Luke's Hospital Center. In many of these cases, other surgeons might have performed hysterectomies...