Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arguments that lotteries are effective money-raisers and that they are an innocuous way for people to brighten their lives with a little dreaming and fun are clearly specious. The Founding Fathers conceived a government based mostly on negative principles; the Constitution's only prescription for positive action is that the government shall "promote the general Welfare...
...tone of Stephanie B. Russek's open letter to Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 ("Dean Lewis Should Respond Positively to Students," April 9, 1996) is so disrespectful it borders on the scandalous. I will not even try to refute Ms. Russek's specious argumentation for changing the term "freshman" to "first-year," though her lack of rigor is alarming, I am much more shocked by her vicious personal attack on Dean Lewis...
...Simons' could slow the exchange of information over the Harvard server and clutter student e-mailboxes, it undermines its own logic by conceding that filters could be put in place to restrain mass mailings. Claims that the "legitimate" user would somehow be punished by such a program are specious at best...
...moreover, reinforced growing resentment among Russians at what they regard as demeaning and condescending American treatment. Historically, the State Department has not made a habit of commenting on Cabinet changes or giving directions on economic policy in other countries. Making an exception in the case of Russia reinforces the specious but widely believed claims of nationalist politicians that the aim of American policy is to humiliate and weaken Russia...
...institutions have managed to commemorate their dead on both sides of the Civil War has not served to confuse their students or alumni as to where the institution stood in the conflict of 1861-1865. Of all the arguments against a Confederate memorial, this to me seems the most specious...