Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about it. He cravenly repudiated his earlier championship of serious family planning when he went to work for Ronald Reagan. As President, Bush has kept in place his predecessor's withdrawal of U.S. payments to the U.N. Fund for Population Activities and International Planned Parenthood on the specious grounds that they support abortion...
...similar note, a comment from search committee member Robert G. Stone Jr. has convinced us to retract our specious comparisons of the committee and the Mafia...
...Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, chair of the rent control subcommittee, said that many of the objections raised against the proposals by owners and tenants have been specious and misinformed...
...SIMILAR NOTE, a comment from search committee member Robert G. Stone, Jr., has convinced us to retract our specious comparisons of the committee and the Mafia...
...objection that this proposal would pair those most in need of legal assistance with the least experienced attorneys is similarly specious. Experienced attorneys would serve as well in the four-week stints mentioned above; young lawyers could work under permanent supervisors; and a new lawyer certainly provides better assistance than no lawyer...