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Word: arguments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecutor Ravi Mehta called the argument a "crock," saying Razo was not poisoned by PCP when he turned himself in to police in 1987 and confessed to 12 burglaries. Mehta told the court that Razo "had earned his way to Harvard, but he also earned his way to prison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An American Dream Sours; Razo Convicted of Robberies | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...That was an argument based on rhetoric and not too much else," says Kennedy School student and study author Patrick J. Dober of the discount theory. In fact, Dober found, the average discount 1-2-3 would give tenants is a mere 8 percent...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...That was an argument based on rhetoric and not too much else," says Kennedy School student and study author Patrick J. Dober of the discount theory. In fact, Dober found, the average discount 1-2-3 would give tenants is a mere 8 percent...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...words] were purposefully designed to catch the attention of the person who has come to vote and who has not studied the proposal carefully," says Samp. "The basic argument between [Democratic Commissioner Sondra B.] Scheir and myself is, "Does this in fact constitute a buzzword...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...purposes, it matters very little what strange thoughts occur to people in Albania or Burkina Faso, for we are interested in . . . the common ideological heritage of mankind." This passage, almost a throwaway line amid the references to Hegel and the main strands of Fukuyama's argument, stands out nonetheless. It will be particularly embarrassing when "post-history" produces its first ugly spectacular, whether it is a nuclear war between two backward and strange- thinking countries that never cared much for Karl Marx or Adam Smith, or an ecological disaster that is beyond the micromanagement of the technocrats who Fukuyama predicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Beginning of Nonsense | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

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