Word: speciousness
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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...
...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...