Word: arguments
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Crucial to the argument set forth in Crisis is the authors' contention that at least 3 million Americans are infected with the AIDS virus. Masters and his associates arrived at that figure by a fairly straightforward calculation: if there are 50 to 100 symptomless carriers of the AIDS virus for every case of actual disease, as was first noted in 1985, and there were 45,000 cases of AIDS in the U.S. in late 1987, then one would now expect about 3,375,000 people (75 X 45,000) to be infected with the virus...
...argument which ensued over the vote's tabulation escalated into a shouting match between Mandery and Beroutsos which required both to leave the chamber and conclude the argument outside of the UC meeting. When both entered the chamber 15 minutes later, Beroutsos presented the motion for reconsideration once again. Cooper kept count as Council members voted in an adapted roll-call vote. The final count: 22 for, 21 against. After the second deliberation of the HCOJ grant, the Council did not reverse its earlier decision, but that's not really the point. I'm not advocating that the Council should...
...racist, they are at least shockingly insensitive to racial problems. The Review's confrontation with Professor Cole was a carefully orchestrated attack on affirmative action at Dartmouth. The Review claimed that affirmative action denigrates the value of a Dartmouth diploma, and that it is tantamount to racism. But this argument denies the existence of institutionally imposed barriers to minority achievement. It plays on latent racist sentiment, and it displays a profound insensitivity to the problems of minorities...
...fewer than twelve newspaper strips. Then they set forth to sell their new hero to the waiting world, which proved utterly indifferent. "A rather immature piece of work," said United Feature. "Crude and hurried," said Esquire Features. Even at Detective Comics, which finally bought the feature after much argument and delay to help launch Action Comics four years later, Publisher Harry Donenfeld looked at the first cover, of Superman lifting a car over his head (a treasure that now can fetch $35,000 from collectors), and delivered his verdict: "Ridiculous...
...best, the uprisings in Armenia and Azerbaijan are an embarrassment for Gorbachev; at worst, they could prove fatal to him. Party conservatives are almost certain to turn the ethnic unrest into an argument against further liberalization. "What is the implication in these riots for Gorbachev?" asks Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. "The implication is disaster. After 70 years of repression, it is not so easy to accomplish what he wants, and this will be a black mark against him by Russian nationalists and traditional centralists...