Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right-wing and moderate Harvard Law School professors counter that argument, saying that Trubek and Dalton did meet the school's tenure standards. This spring, Bok, acting on the advice of a review committee of experts, upheld the faculty's decision to deny Dalton tenure...
...argument led naturally to a clash over tax policy. Bush stoutly defended his proposal to cut the capital-gains tax rate from its current 28% to 15%. Dukakis jumped on this notion as a tax cut "for the wealthiest 1%" of Americans. But a reference by Dukakis to the need to bring interest rates down gave Bush an easy shot at the 21.5% that existed at one point under President Carter...
There is a curmudgeonly line of argument that contends that campaign strategy, like most mystic arts, consists mainly of common sense buttressed by uncommon decisiveness. It is probably also true that Dukakis' July lead in the polls was destined to fade like a hothouse flower. The Massachusetts Governor, after all, is running against the heir to a popular President who is campaigning on peace and prosperity. But even so, it is hard to exaggerate the problems that Sasso inherited when for the second time he took the tiller of the foundering campaign...
...rabbis willing to bypass tradition? Some cite humanitarian reasons. Rabbi Fredric Dworkin of Leonia, N.J., first broke ranks 20 years ago, when an obese Jewish woman who had experienced difficulty finding a mate pleaded, "This might be my only chance at happiness." A more common argument is presented by Rabbi Richard Schachet, whose Chatsworth, Calif., synagogue consists almost entirely of the intermarried. "Every Jew who is turned away is a potential loss," he says. While opponents see intermarriages as a threat to Jewish survival, rabbis who perform them reason that the couples will wed anyway and a friendly approach...
Mosier's research bore some relevance to the discussions under way at the NIH meeting. While the Stanford work with fetal tissue appeared to be a powerful argument for continuing such experimentation, the La Jolla studies seemed, however unintentionally, to offer an alternative. Still, Daniel Koshland Jr., editor of Science, who admitted to releasing the Stanford results a week early in order to coincide with the NIH meeting, strongly backed the scientists' right to continue their research. Said Koshland: "This is an excellent example of careful, scientifically controlled use of fetal tissue to attack major human disease." Moreover, the fetal...