Word: speciousness
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...arguments employed by Bok to argue against a formal student role are specious. Bok fears that opening up the process and making public the names of the candidates will scare away worthy candidates. Some candidates, Bok argues, would not agree to consider the job if they had first to undergo student scrutiny...
...G.O.P.-controlled Senate, however, Democrats played the same kind of charade that the Republicans had so long used on them. The Democrats pushed a motion to raise the debt ceiling by only $28 billion, rather than Reagan's requested $50 billion, on the specious ground that the President's drive to cut spending ought to make the bigger increase unnecessary. The motion was defeated by 51 Republicans and Democrat Russell Long of Louisiana, voting against 41 other Democrats. Even then, the Senate indulged in six hours of partisan wrangling and taunts before finally passing Reagan's request...
...fetched notions plausible, if not convincing. His "In Defense of Equality" attacks arch-neo-conservative Irving Kristol's attempt to justify large-income inequalities as the natural product of a hierarchy of innate abilities. For Walzer, the moral claim to the products of society cannot depend on some specious ground of superior ability, but on specific human qualities and needs...
Amid the moral uproar surrounding the Klitgaard report, the Crimson has provided us with an article that surely dwarfs Klitgaard in arrogance, specious argument, and even racism--Selwyn Cudjoe's "Ideological Trick-Bag." This quasi-Marxist analysis pales in comparison with the sober and informed exchange between Carl Gershman and Dr. Kenneth Clark it sets out to condemn...
Manley blamed these problems on external factors. Examining his claims superficially, one finds a specious appeal in almost all of his arguments--precisely what would most excite his almost spiritual following. But they do not add up to a convincing case for his PNP. Oil prices have little to do with Jamaica's failures...