Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stake is a woman's right to control her own body, a woman's right to privacy"--this powerful argument forms the moral and legal plank of the pro-choice platform. Indeed, given the way that pro-choicers have been able to frame the debate, to oppose abortion, for many people, means that one is thus anti-liberty and privacy and for the imposition of others' views on women...
...many parents, dinnertime is too often a series of exhausting skirmishes with small children who refuse to finish their spinach or salad. Invariably, the parental argument is: "Eat it. It's good for you." This week a new study charges that all too often what is on the plate or in the glass may not be good for you at all. In fact, reports the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental group based in New York City, farm produce sold in U.S. supermarkets and greengroceries may contain so much pesticide that it poses a serious hazard to the health...
...SUCH an argument easily extends to the dearth of women on the faculty of the University. Harvard ranks dead last in the Ivy League in terms of tenured women, since women make up only 5 percent of the faculty University-wide. When such prestigious institutions as Columbia, Pennsylvannia, Berkeley, Dartmouth, and Cornell have percentages twice as high as Harvard's, it leads one to the conclusion that the problem is inherent in the institution and not in the pool...
...were granted as fact (which it most certainly is not) that the size of the pool of professors was a problem in the case of minorities, who represent only a small percentage of even the general population, such an argument cannot be extended to that of women. Women represent, in fact, a majority of the population. In addition, women, as a percentage of their gender in the general population, enter higher education at a much higher rate than do minorities...
...while all parties tried to settle the question behind closed doors. If Gesell ruled that specific information was essential to North's defense, prosecutors would have three options. They could prepare a paraphrased summary, release a censored version of the document with portions blacked out, or simply admit without argument to allegations made by the defense...