Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Unfortunately, if predictably, this line of thinking survives by the tenuous argument that the billions of dollars of arms we sold to the government of the Shah, Israel's and our training of Savak and other military personnel, 40,000 American technicians and "consultants" working for our military or private corporations on contract to the Shah, and no doubt substantial covert CIA activities as well--all of these were somehow "insufficient," and we erred in Iran only by not supporting the Shah more fully...
...plates, threatens to crush the Olympics. Some people believe that might be just as well. The Olympics have become preposterously overcommercial and overbuilt, unwieldy and ruinously expensive. NBC paid the Soviets $87 million for television rights to the Moscow Games (and with laudable forbearance has stayed out of the argument over the boycott). For $50,000 to $300,000, a company can buy into the Games; Dannon paid up, for example, and so can advertise itself, with meaningless grandeur, as "The Official Yogurt of the 1980 Winter Olympics...
...argument in favor of a boycott has gone beyond the hopes of wounding the Kremlin, and the most optimistic Americans hope to reach the general public of the Soviet Union--illustrating the Western disapproval of Soviet aggression through absence at the summer Games. Even if we were successful in rallying the support of all other Western countries, we could not successfully "reach" the Soviets. If they were successfully deceived as to why tens of thousands of troops moved into Afghanistan, they can certainly be deceived as to why tens of thousands of troops moved into Afghanistan, they can certainly...
...Deceive so as not to be deceived." The American public seems to have rejected this argument, as was indicated in 1978 when The Chicago Sun-Times lost its bid for a Pulitzer prize because of "deceptive" reporting techniques. Two Sun-Times reporters had secretly bought a Chicago bar and then chronicled the bribes they paid to city officials in order to keep it open. Their story created a sensation in Chicago, where it led to a widespread investigation of municipal corruption. But it angered Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee'43, of the Pulitzer jurors, who objected to the false pretenses...
...Harvard Corporation views the principles as a cornerstone of the case-by-case review of the argument for the retention of the University's more than $250 million investments in 65 companies. Both Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), and his liason on the Corporation, Hugh Calkins '45, believe corporations satisfy their moral and ethical responsibilities in South Africa when they fully implement the principles...