Word: speciousness
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What does all this mean? I would say to the League, if you have a point then state it. But don't try to deceive me with your beguiling language, specious arguments and vacuous phrases. Your spokesman has managed to write a stirring tirade against nothing, and in her zeal she has destroyed whatever honesty she started out with. More importantly, your group once again has justified Orwell's famous statement that political language is the defense of the indefensible. MichaelKorn...
...must maintain favorable "terms of trade" -that is, catch up with inflation in the industrial world, so that the selling price of a barrel of crude will buy as large a quantity of Western imports as it did in, say, early 1974. To oil consumers that argument seems extremely specious: the early 1974 terms of trade were achieved after a 400% jump in oil prices, and that leap caused no small part of the Western inflation that OPEC complains about. Even so, John Lichtblau director of the U.S. Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, contends that a 3% to 7.5% rise...
...then argument directly linking social, economic, and political problems with specific programs designed to alleviate them is glaringly apparent. The if-then framework oversimplifies the issue: it sets up a false dichotomy and thereby excludes alternative programs from consideration. Yet in the heat of political campaigns such specious reasoning is surprisingly effective; millions of Americans who had never heard of, much less read, the Humphrey-Hawkins bill were persuaded to accept it as a litmus test of a candidate's commitment to full employment...
...specious to think that the Constitution requires equal statistical distribution of races in public schools. Integration means equal access, not equal distribution," he said...
...will not accept that specious reasoning. I refuse to be held responsible for the misguided acts of a few merely because we happen to be members of the same larger group...