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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mayor Flynn responded by calling Wade's argument "the most bogus point of view I've ever heard...

Author: By Joshua M .sharfstein, | Title: 'Controlled Choice' in Boston | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...Their argument is that a student assignment plan doesn't address the more central question of education. O'Bryant says, "If you're talking about moving children, you're not talking about an educational activity. If you're talking about giving people choice, you have to give them something to choose...

Author: By Joshua M .sharfstein, | Title: 'Controlled Choice' in Boston | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...similar to the argument for free trade: once barriers to exchange go up, everyone loses. Some never experience Beethoven, some never experience Charlie Chaplin--and whether you think the trade-off is even or not, it's hard to see what's good about having any creative work rendered off-limits...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: A Time When Popular Culture Included the Fine Arts | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...beyond these claims, the anonymous author distorted or ignored relevant facts. In doing so, he made an argument in favor of legal abortion on demand which is clearly untenable and which demonstrates how some prochoice arguments suffer from severe gaps in logic...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Clouding the Abortion Issue | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

...recorded with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison (who died in late 1988), The Traveling Wilburys, won praise. -- ARETHA FRANKLIN, the "queen of soul," won two Grammy Awards in 1988. -- MARVIN GAYE, rhythm- and-blues singer, was shot and killed by his father in an argument in 1984, on his 45th birthday. -- S.I. HAYAKAWA, former president of San Francisco State University, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1982. He is honorary chairman of U.S. English, which seeks to make English the official language of the U.S. -- ABBIE HOFFMAN, cofounder of the Youth International Party, is an environmental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postscript | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

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