Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Because the cause is just and the costs can be reasonably predicted as acceptably low. The case for sending troops to Haiti, whether as a hostile force or as a friendly one after the dictators leave, is stronger than the rationale Bill Clinton articulated last week, which was mostly specious...
...lump sum policy that, fortunately, Human Resources did not make; namely, that since 60% of the settlement was the full amount that Human Resources felt the retiree was entitled to, why should there be an outcry if the remaining 40% went to the IRS. That would be a specious and cynical argument. Harvard's proposed settlement, even including the 40% to the IRS, fell far short of making up my friend's lost retirement income. Hence, it us obviously in the interest of both Harvard and the retirees that the funds available for termination settlements should be for the benefit...
...alone) and daily reports on evening newscasts of children murdering each other, have severely undermined each other, have severely undermined the NRA's whining about individual rights. The rights of Americans to own weapons that can fire hundreds of bullets for minutes--for apparently no legitimate purpose--seems specious when waves of terror leave dozens dead in Texas or on a Long Island train...
Davis, a former council member, has labeled Gabay's interpretation a "specious challenge, self serving and designed to delay the officer elections...
...both of the arguments advanced by Campbell are specious. It should not be too difficult to identify the rightful possessor of a free newspaper: the publishers, because they produced it, are the legal owners...