Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from such basic questions, Americans may be excused for being somewhat unimpressed by the argument that the balance of payments cost of maintaining military forces in various parts of the world is to a large degree responsible in making it impossible for them to visit these very countries on their vacations...
...Thinking" computers, based on random functions, exist today. These machines, programmed to learn by trial and error as humans do, are essentially Turing's robot. Hence, Mortimer Adler's argument is obsolete-and man's uniqueness again becomes questionable...
...argument against the laws was based on the contention that the First Amendment is not intended to protect communication for adults only. It was also argued that because of the widely varying maturity of persons of any one age, it was unconstitutional to set an age limit...
...television in full view of any twelve-year-old. Adding that six cities were already copying the Dallas law, he asked that it be thrown out. If it is not, he said, it would be an "intolerable burden" on the film industry. The court will hear no further argument on the subject, but will render a decision some time before recessing in June...
...more subtle argument against the war is that it is not going to be won by force of arms. An unwinnable conflict, theologians point out, violates the traditional concept of the just war, in which the probability of accomplishing a moral goal must outweigh the violent means involved. Says Lutheran Pastor Richard Neuhaus of Brooklyn, a co-founder of Clergy and Laymen Concerned: "There is no legitimate proportionality between the credible goals of the war and the means being used to win it. The credible goals are weak and tenuous, and the means are evident in their harshness...