Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...words of Holly D. Ladd, director of the Boston AIDS Consortium, Congress was "led by fear over rationality" in its recent vote. Health professionals and researchers agree that arguments for the ban, including claims of increased health care costs for HIV-infected immigrants, are particularly specious in a country which already contains within its borders the highest number of HIV-positive individuals in the world...
Fragile ancient works travel in support of a specious theory...
Finally, the most ambitious claim forwarded by "No on Three," that passage of the initiative would cost each Massachusetts family approximately $230, is also the most specious one. First of all, any increase in cost of living will at least partially be offset by reductions in the amount of money we now spend on incinerators and landfills. But, "No on Three" arrived at this $230 per family figure by assuming that all industries would need to adjust expensively their packaging methods and would then pass that burden onto the consumers, an assumption that is patently false. Many packaging industries--such...
...CCLN members called this reasoning specious, claiming that Lotus has already moved about half of its employees out of the city, including all of its customer service workers and half of its employees in manufacturing...
...other major issue--what to do about the loss of ideological diversity accrued when some students choose ROTC over Harvard--seems like a specious...