Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admitting that he had reservations about the film "to the extent that it would be exploitative," Ovitz denies that he led a campaign to suppress it. "This movie will rise or fall on its own merits," he says. "There is nothing anyone can do to stop it." Bolstering his argument is the fact that the film, for all its troubles, has found a distributor: Atlantic Entertainment Group, an independent company that has handled such films as Teen Wolf and Wish You Were Here. Some contend that Wired's producers are simply trying to generate controversy over a bad film with...
Even if I didn't do it, someone else would. It might as well be someone who at least knows it's bad. A perfectly specious argument that liberals regularly condemn in the likes of a certain university that refuses to divest of its holdings in firms that deal with South Africa...
...Jason and Andy will have a terrific showing next year I'm sure," said Carolyn G. Kaufman '91, who was one of the judges at this year's tournament. "Like Nick and Pat, they're among a breed that can combine acute argument with...
After North's lawyer finishes his closing argument today, there will be rebuttal, and the trial--now in its 12th week--will go to the jury, which will then be sequestered...
...fresh from an electoral victory. To demonstrate that the real power lies in a PAC-elected Congress immune from effective voter control." And ultimately "to dismantle the presidency" no less. Of course, 87% of the members of Congress are also fresh from election. But this doesn't count, the argument goes, because Congress has "less turnover . . . than in the Supreme Soviet," as former President Reagan has complained. Only six House incumbents lost re-election bids last year, and more than 85% of current members won by over...