Word: argument
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel strike satisfies the Taft-Hartley requirement for evident danger to "the national health or safety" before an injunction may be issued. Contrary to union argument, said the court, the Government does not have to prove something as vague as "damage to national health," because the steel strike in fact imperils "national safety" by specific effects upon defense projects...
This commercial-minded argument fell flat in the wake of the U.S. scandals. Snapped one private broadcaster: "Van Doren has done more damage to free enterprise in Canadian broadcasting in an hour than the CBC in 20 years...
...proposal that Kintner & Co. disposed of convincingly is an industry-appointed TV "czar" with power to enforce balanced programing. "The concept," said Kintner last week, "is not workable for [television] any more than [for] the newspaper industry or the magazine industry." Kintner did not add the most plausible argument against the idea: the hard-lobbying broadcasters might hamstring a TV commissioner as easily as they have...
Fuller likened the act of making close pitches look like strikes to a lawyer's advocacy--the catcher is simply "presenting a persuasive argument." But, he contended, a football player pretending to be hurt is committing a moral wrong, and engaging in "true deception...
With some feeling, Kamisar countered that the catchers' tactics may be compared only to an improper legal argument, not to a legitimate one. Furthermore, he said, the "If one can do it" principle can be used to condemn any act whatever...