Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that one-third of the auto industry's employees have been laid off in the past year. To counteract this resentment, union leaders are trying to convince members that life under Reagan would be much worse. But nobody knows if the workers will buy that argument...
City landlords, who have termed the law an unconstitutional confiscation of private property, have challenged the law through the state courts. A lower court judge upheld the statute last spring, but the state Supreme Judicial Court will hear argument on the ordinance later this fall, perhaps issuing a ruling by early next year...
...Hitler had been assassinated, would the moral argument for not taking one life have been weightier than the morality of saving the lives of millions? If potential breeders of wars are not to be struck down because of moral considerations, then moral considerations must be of considerably less value and significance to humanity than purely practical considerations. Assassination may be not only more practical than war but, if morality can be quantified, much less immoral...
...Administration's other argument was that rejecting the sale might cause India to turn further toward the Soviets-perhaps by buying from them uranium it could not get from the U.S. One of the goals of U.S. diplomacy in the region is to start re-establishing friendly relations with India, the greatest power on a subcontinent that was unsettled by the fall of the Shah in Iran and is threatened by the Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan...
...first time Spencer Snell, then 20, came before Florida Circuit Court Judge Joseph Durant, he was charged with murdering a man during an argument. He was freed on $2,500 bond. While Snell was at liberty, police say, he killed another man outside a pool hall after a dispute over who had the next game. That time he was locked up until his trial. Last week, at Durant's suggestion, Snell pleaded no contest to second-degree murder charges in both cases. Durant's sentence: three years, the minimum allowed...