Word: argument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure that's an argument they may be able to make, but as for units removed since the law was passed, they would seem to be covered unless the board or a court found otherwise," James Remeika, who drafted the removal regulations for the Rent Control Board, said Sunday...
...Complains a White House aide: "Fritz has no staying power. You give him an assignment, an area to oversee, and after a few months he loses interest." The same staffer insists that Mondale never pushes contrary ideas on the President. "Jimmy would love to get a good argument out of him, but every time we think Fritz is going to dig in his heels, he caves...
...school integration in the U.S. since the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. A third of American children now go to school in districts that have adopted desegregation plans. Both those who favor busing and those who hate it hardened their positions long ago, remaining as closed to argument as if they had borrowed earplugs from the Columbus cops...
UNFORTUNATELY NEITHER the decontrol of oil nor the production of petroleum from unconventional sources nor divestiture of the oil companies is likely to reverse the decline in domestic oil production. The argument that decontrol of oil prices would encourage oil exploration does not obscure the fact that "over 2 million wells have been drilled in the United States--four times as many as in all the rest of the noncommunist world combined." Shale oil would cost far more than conventional oil and takes too long to develop--"a production level equal to about half of one percent...
Brustein says that as soon as he arrives he will investigate the historical and philosophical reasons for the non-credit tradition. "I can and will make a strong argument for drama getting course credit," he says, but he adds, "I would never make a case for credit for a performance apart from a class with theoretical content." But while more drama courses get credit with Brustein's leadership, it will probably be some time before all studio work is recognized at Harvard...