Word: argument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the AMA's made its most original argument against limiting costs to senior citizens before the House Ways and Means Committee this March. "Controls on physican fees should not be imposed while the rest of the economy is unregulated," said the AMA representative. In other words, leave us alone until this becomes a communist country...
Okpaku said he stopped the argument when thepolice arrived, and Barrow asked the police toarrest the Cambridge resident...
...reject this argument categorically. It was a friend of mine--a true "Thursday Thumper"--who had initially lured me into the aerobics class. I shall call her by her real name Shelly, although I am tempted to call her Judas...
More is at stake than the future of a habitat for alligators, wading birds and other swamp life. "This is not just an argument between greedy farmers and anxious environmentalists," says the Wilderness Society's Webb. "It's a planning issue of fundamental proportions. It's the future of South Florida." If the river of grass turns into a sea of cattails, the water supply for coastal cities from West Palm Beach to Miami could dry up, and a sunny subtropical paradise could become a barren wasteland. Floridians are coming to realize how much they too depend on the vast...
...that argument, Native Americans answer that 1) most of the unearthed Indian bones lie moldering and unexamined in museum basements; and 2) little if any data gathered from their study are shared with the descendants. According to Suzan Shown Harjo, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, the only bit of information the Smithsonian ever imparted to her group was that their ancestors ate corn. "We could have told them that anyway," says Harjo, citing the accuracy of Indian oral tradition...