Word: speciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Draper Laboratories, which only helps devise the guidance systems for certain missiles. Nuclear bombs are not built within city limits: no explosive or radioactive materials are used. Supporters counter that Cambridge will be a safer place to live because it somehow would be lowered on the Soviet hit list--specious logic since Cambridge would still be in the backyard of hi-tech Boston...
...arguments raised by the opponents of the Nuclear Free Cambridge measures are so specious that must see them for what they art: desperate, had faith attempts to deter the voters of Cambridge from addressing the true issues. If the opponents want to develop nuclear weapons in Cambridge, let them say so, and cant their arguments in phony First Amendment or academic freedom language...
...anger and the world's outrage were augmented beyond the deed itself by Moscow's sullen and specious responses to the unequivocal evidence of what had happened. After remaining virtually silent on the matter for almost two days, the Soviet Union finally issued a labored account of an "unidentified plane" that had "rudely violated the state border and intruded deep into the Soviet Union's airspace." TASS admitted that Soviet interceptors had "fired warning shots and tracer shells along the flying route of the plane," but refused to acknowledge shooting it down...
...Corporation representatives employed specious arguments and unscrupulous tactics in asking the ACSR to ratify a major policy departure presented in the guise of a minor modification, and without the benefit of a detailed discussion either within the ACSR or among the Harvard community as a whole. The proposed alteration was not a minor technical matter but the effective abrogation of the University's South African policy. Second, the Citibank loan was not solicited by South African Blacks. The Wall Street Journal of Sept. 26. 1980 quotes South African Finance Minister Owen Horwood, who was exultant over the case with which...
...other side of the table, the owners' claims were ludicrous. They tried to damp down an inflationary spiral they themselves had created; and a mere glance at the pennant races when the strike began exposes the "competitive balance problem" as specious...