Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That kind of argument has been made for decades," says Robert N. Bellah '48-'50, a sociology professor at the University of California at Berkeley. "I can't see that his recruiting some unpleasant people in Europe in 1949 is going to make much of a difference on that score...
...campaign, congressional Democrats lambaste the idea as an affront to fairness. "I'm not going to tell the wage earners in Chicago that they should pay a higher tax rate than stockbrokers," thunders House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. There is evidence to support this equity argument: currently, 70% of all capital gains are claimed by taxpayers with household incomes over $100,000 a year...
...there is definitely an argument to be made that the petition did not actually reflect student opinion, since it stated the plan incorrectly. Freshmen signed the petition under the misimpression that it represented the true lottery plan, and no one on the Undergraduate Council bothered to correct the mistakes before the document reached administrators' desks...
When the Webster case was presented to the Supreme Court, the Justices could have chosen not to schedule the case for argument, but to rule on it with a summary decision that would not affect Roe. They chose instead to hear the case...
...other thing that happens when people find out that I am conservative is that I am almost invariably called upon in the occasional dining hall argument to take the conservative side on whatever issue is being debated over a cold pu-pu platter...