Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Condominium is a fighting word in Cambridge--say it in mixed company, tenants and bankers, for instance, and an argument is guaranteed...
...just don't see what they can accomplish," Hoffmann said, adding that the presence of prominent Americans at the conference will be used by the Iranians "for one more argument in support of American guilt...
...group had helmets or gas masks, shields or boltcutters, grappling hooks or football pads, unlike the more militant, quasimilitary members of the Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook (CDAS). The "negotiators" also noted that blockaders were moving aside to let Rocks Road residents and Seabrook local cops pass. The argument fell on deaf ears. "One way or another, you're getting off the road." The protestors sat quietly, preparing for the imminent debacle. The reporters snapped photos. The locals held their breath. The Commanding Officer gave the order and the Guard started marching--back to the plant, leaving the blockaders...
...Manhattan's tonier cooperative apartments, that's who. Last January Vanderbilt put down her deposit on a $ 1.1 million duplex. In April the purchase was vetoed by the co-op's board of directors on the ground that she was a public figure. Vanderbilt found that argument specious, since Henry Kissinger and Broadway Producer-Director Joshua Logan already live in River House. She has gone to court, charging that the board's real-and illegal-reason is fear that she might marry black Pianist Bobby Short, a close friend who appears with her in jeans commercials...
...Klux Klansmen have paraded around Florida lately, dispensing their old nativist bile and giving a bad name to an argument (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS, the picket signs say) that has more thoughtful and respectable proponents. The New Republic's columnist, TRB, a voice of intelligent liberalism, writes with some truculence: "Sooner or later, America must face reality. It is going to be painful ... The trouble is that huddled masses need jobs. The American frontier (worse luck) is gone." The American ideal of endless hospitality and refuge presupposed perpetually expanding resources. Now, says the argument, an emerging order of scarcity mandates...