Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides wore modern clothes -- time travelers of sorts. The defense attorney was Jacques Verges, well known for another unpopular case: last year he was chief counsel for former SS Commander Klaus Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyons," who was convicted of crimes against humanity during the Nazi occupation. Verges' spirited argument last week, that Louis XVI was a victim of circumstances, fared better...
Skeptics note that the Soviets could merely eliminate their aging T-54 and T-55 tanks, retaining their more modern T-80s, T-72s and T-64s, and that the old armor would not be missed. This argument is a switch. U.S. Army analysts have long insisted on counting older tanks in any attempt to achieve East-West parity...
EVEN when they concede that point, conservative critics insist that a sub-minimum, or "training wage" is needed so that unskilled teenagers can gain experience in the job market. Businesses, the argument goes, would hire and train more teenagers if only their labor were cheap enough. Of course, as the minimum wage stagnated, the cost of teenage labor declined dramatically in real terms since 1981, but teenage employment rates have not risen...
...argument for permitting firms to "train" teenagers at a penurious wage is equally faulty. Proponents of a training wage would allow a sub-minimum wage for youths aged 16 to 18. Does it really take two years to be "trained" at floor sweeping and cash register banging...
...priority will no longer be to pay, but to return to growth," Salinas told a cheering crowd. "This is not demagoguery or an admonition. It is a reasoned argument that derives from the needs of my people...