Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...palace guard, you have to learn to deal with it. That's just the way things are. The guys who get through the palace guard are not only the favorites. They are the ones who are the most effective. They are the guys who make the most cogent arguments, the ones who get the job done." As it happens, Rosow's boss, George Shultz...
...substantial event: the recent conference in the School of Theology at Claremont, Calif., at which 20 scholars, including Fisher and DeWolf, strove to promulgate "a theology of survival." One of the papers delivered there-by Claremont Theologian John B. Cobb Jr., originator of the conference-amounts to the most cogent statement yet of where philosophical and religious thought has gone wrong in abetting bad ecological practices...
...governor Ronald Reagan said of radicals last week. "If it takes a blood-bath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement." It is to be hoped that Rcagan's omens prove to be inaccurate, just as we hope that demonstrators can channel their militance into a more cogent and solidified force. But it is imperative that each of us confront the reality of an escalating situation and eschew criticisms that stem from a futile nostalgia for a time that has passed...
While there may, in fact, be entirely valid and cogent reasons for Harvard's refusal to consider some such working agreement with the Boston Patriots Football organization, those reasons have not been made clear, and until they are made so and may be judged to prevail, a good number of Harvard's sons (including myself), and an even greater number of Bostonians-at-Large, wonder why such an arrangement would not be to the benefit of the City the Patriots, and of Harvard...
...purchase more individual choice in the material studied, but as they are incorporated into the rules, the text gets longer. What tends to come out is not something neat and streamlined but rather something resembling the Income Tax laws, which are wondrously complicated but do not represent a cogent system. The best way, and the most efficient, to gain the freedom to tailor academic programs, is to abolish concentrations completely...