Word: argument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lobby lands on mushier ground, however, when it leaps from such / examples into a far broader argument: that more lives are saved than lost by the firearms Americans acquire to protect themselves and their property. The N.R.A. emphasized that claim in a two-page newspaper advertisement attacking TIME for its report ((July 17)) on 464 gun deaths that occurred in the U.S. in a single week, chosen at random. "Legally-owned firearms saved the lives of far more Americans than those lost during ((TIME's)) 'seven deadly days,' " the advertisement stated. "According to noted criminologist Dr. Gary Kleck of Florida...
Furthermore, to assume that Black leaders are the only sources of racial harmony in urban areas completely simplifies the problem of bigotry. The Times' argument is claiming that the only reason why Watts doesn't burn again is because "they've got one of their own in the statehouse...
...golf course in Dulwich, the sedately elegant London suburb where the Thatchers own a large, two-story brick house for their retirement. After a round, he invariably speeds off to the clubhouse for a natter and a snort. He even launched a popular campaign against slow golfers with the argument: "After all, the quicker you finish your round, the more time you will have for a pint...
Noland accepted the argument of the church and the Greek Cypriot government that the works had been stripped from a small village church on the Turkish- controlled side of the island and illegally offered for sale on the international art market. Said Archbishop Chrysostomos of the Cyprus Church: "This just decision by the American court will help end the illegal marketing of looted archaeological items worldwide." Museum directors expect the decision to set an important precedent for regulating the antiquities market...
...something about that kind of argument disturbs me. The fact is that it was not a "white guy" she spoke to. And she is not a Black woman...