Word: argument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouldn't judge a school's "academic reputation," went his argument, and meanwhile neglect its academics...
...argument might be counterintuitive, but anyone who has survived week one of Ec 10 knows the essential logic behind it. When government intervenes in a market and establishes a ceiling price below the market price, there are some winners and some losers...
...This argument is plausible when applied to welfare programs. At least the rich on Social Security do not take benefits away from the needy. Bribing the rich to support a system that screws the poor is surely a case of the tail wagging...
Allow the universities' point that a bidding war would ensue if they did not set awards. If competition forced the big schools to work to entice students, smaller schools would go all out to get their students. Implicit in the colleges' argument is the assumption that education at all these schools is of equal value and hence should not be sold to the "highest bidder. Yet, in a competitive system, the same number of students would accept admission, and the rule of "need-based" aid should insure that the most money would go to the most needy students...
...although the goals and positions of the new traditionally Jewish organization are to some extent questionable, his argument showed little appreciation for the need for a new breed of social organization. Students are attempting to broaden the organized social life of a University whose present system caters almost exclusively to prep-school WASPs and old-boy legacies...