Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...council may have agreed with Darling and Marshall's wish to have administrators foot the bill for Census 2000, but it was more convinced by Orr's argument that the project was too important to possibly put in danger should funding from outside the council not be available...
...This argument meshes well with the trustees' reasoning for the policy shift. When they were undergraduates, the drinking age was lower, so alcohol at the club was not as much of a privilege. Consumption of alcohol has played a fairly large role in the club's life. An early constitution of the club included a stipulation on alcohol use: "No alcoholic drinks except Malt Liquor shall be allowed in the Club House." This rule soon fell out of favor as the second floor of the current building became a full-time bar. By the mid 1970s, the drink of choice...
...admissions office argues that there is no difference in difficulty between the two pools. They say that the early applicant pool is self-selecting, and it therefore makes up for its smaller size with higher quality. But the problem with this argument is that with Harvard's new early action policy, there should be very little difference between the two rounds...
...half-year tryout in which 55 of 335 of Parkwood's eighth graders were separated by gender into two different classes. The ACLU claimed the exercise, which school officials hoped would highlight any intellectual benefits of segregating adolescents by gender, was discriminatory toward the girls involved; in their argument against the separation, the civil rights group cited a 1972 law banning sexual discrimination at federally funded schools...
...This argument, of course, is the crux of the disagreement between those who believe abortion is a right and those who believe abortion is murder," she said...