Word: arguments
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...past? Uruguay chose, by referendum, a forgetting. It voted to let the brutalities of military rule be bygone. Argentina did the opposite. It prosecuted those who gave the orders for torture and execution. The Argentine experience, however, with its semiannual military revolts and its reversion to Peronism, seems an argument against too much remembering...
Some experts viewed the Paramount tactic as a move to buttress its position in Delaware chancery court, where Paramount contends that Time is in effect interfering with its shareholders' desire to tender their stock. "This will add a notch to Paramount's legal argument, but it will only put pressure on Time if 70% to 90% of its shareholders tender their stock to Paramount," said Jeffrey Greenblatt, a partner in Cambridge Capital Holdings. "Time does not have to take any new defensive steps," he added, "because there is no threat that Paramount will be able to acquire Time's stock...
...congressional letters and the Corcoran withdrawal incited the ire of arts partisans who contend that withholding funds or threatening to do so amounts to Government censorship. Political whim, their argument goes, should not be the judge of art. What shocks one generation -- a Madonna set in a shabby tenement, for example -- is treasured by a later one. Moreover, art that flouts convention by dealing with the extremities of the human condition is the work most in need of support...
...have often heard the argument that a Muslim country as such cannot have or work democracy," Bhutto said. "But I stand before you, a Muslim woman, the elected Prime Minister of a hundred million Muslims, a living refutation of such arguments and notions...
...best argument in favor of the foundation's suggestions is that many of them have already been tried successfully: according to one study, 63% of middle schools provide health instruction, 40% assign adult advisers to students, 33% use team teaching, and 28% offer sex education. Breaking up large, impersonal schools into smaller units is also starting to gain acceptance. "It's a lot more work, but it's very stimulating," says Elizabeth Ophals, a social-studies teacher at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in New York City, where houses and team teaching were adopted last year...