Word: argument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the men of Charlie Company say that their act was no different from bombings carried out by high-flying pilots?and for peasants the outcome is often deathly similar. This argument raises a troubling ethical question about the nature of war; yet it clearly takes greater savagery to kill a defenseless human being when one looks into his face than when one never sees...
James Lorenz '60, a California lawyer and another panel member, accused Calkins of using the same type of reasoning that produced Vietnam. The argument that the war- or pollution- is necessary to keep the economy going is no excuse, he said...
Dean Ford at the same time expressed guarded optimism over the possibilities of the study. "My positive reaction is thatit puts serious argument back where it belongs in the curriculum, "he said." A lot of students are not taking curriculum seriously and Dean May is right to suggest a certain urgency in this study...
...occupied territory through the gradual spread of Israeli law. Deputy Premier Yigal Alton, Dayan's chief rival for eventual premiership, joined in the attack on the Defense Minister's economic integration policy but, fearing a vote on the issue, walked out of the meeting before the argument ended...
...eminent economists. Says Walter W. Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "I think we have to be very, very careful in suggesting that inflation is the enemy of the poor. It may be their friend in employment terms." Some Government figures buttress the argument. For example, 800,000 of the 5,800,000 U.S. families that were officially defined as poor in 1966 had increased their incomes enough to rise above the poverty line last year. Their gains were achieved even though inflation had meanwhile pushed the poverty line up from...