Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...only controls the army and police force but also wields the constitutional authority to dissolve parliament and declare a state of emergency. Should the fundamentalists achieve a two-thirds majority, they will have enough votes to force constitutional changes and override presidential vetoes. Jean Leca, a leading French expert on Algeria, warns that in such an event, strict social control and dictatorship are likely to follow. Other analysts predict that the military, which is committed to a modernizing, secular state, will thwart such ambitions...
Take the recent joint appearance of Brown and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin at a breakfast for 1,500 liberal Democratic farmers and senior citizens in Moline, Ill. Harkin rolled up his working-class sleeves, quoted from the Old Testament and Abe Lincoln, and with drawling, oratorically expert highs and lows, hammered away at the Bush Administration on bread-and-butter issues...
...calling the FBI to say they are worried that workers they have fired will come back to kill them. One major bank that fired hundreds of employees, coldly informing them by mail, contacted the FBI for advice after the chairman received an anonymous threat of mass murder. FBI psychological experts, who concluded that the sender was a middle manager due for layoff, do not believe he will carry out his threat. But agent John Douglas, the agency's top behavioral-science expert, advises that all such threats must be taken seriously. Workplace shootings are increasing. One reason: many people...