Word: unsound
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...fears expressed toward the military option are either historically unsound or easily prevented. Merely rewriting the bill as it passes through Congress would be sufficient to ensure that the military option will remain fully voluntary. Further, the existence of the draft did not encourage any more U.S. adventurism in the '50s, than a lack of one has in the '80s. Finally, one of the central benefits of national service would be training and job-related skills experience for all American young people, and not just those who choose to enlist in the armed forces...
Leon Kamin, a Princeton psychologist who has long opposed Herrnstein in the IQ debate, thinks the Wilson-Herrnstein material is based on unsound studies. "Fashions change in the social sciences," he says. "Sometimes the environmentalists are in the saddle, so they will look at fatally flawed data and say, 'Look, these suggest an environmental interpretation,' and other times the hereditarians are in the saddle and say, 'Look, these suggest a genetic interpretation.' The data are fundamentally ambiguous, and, in fact, scientists have no basis to come to any conclusions with data of this sort...
...project was to have been built through 169 acres of landfill in the Hudson River, with real estate development and a park on top. It had the support of New York's major politicians, builders and newspapers. But a number of vocal and tenacious critics called the project environmentally unsound and a waste of money. Westway's major roadblock was Federal Judge Thomas Griesa, who twice denied the Army Corps of Engineers a permit to dredge the Hudson. Then the House of Representatives voted this month to kill funding for the project after Congressman Ted Weiss, a Manhattan Democrat, labeled...
...left alone, and that such decisions are better left to elected representatives in Congress. "The political process ensures that laws that unduly burden the states will not be promulgated," he wrote. Judges should hardly ever second-guess that process, Blackmun added, concluding that the 1976 standard had proved "unsound in principle and unworkable in practice...
...nearly intact as possible--is the only way to maintain the current high rate of return on South African investment. Anyone who exposes financial support of the present regime as a means to bring about reform is either easily deceived or willfully deceptive, because it would be financially unsound for any shareholder or corporation to support any course of action intended to give Blacks a meaningful role in economic planning. Profits, not justice, are the primary concern of anyone who has money in South Africa. Apartheid makes good business sense...