McCain added: "When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it".
"When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it," he said.
The debate reached a climax of sorts in 2000, when Arthur Levitt, the outgoing chairman of the SEC, tried to introduce a ban on accountants' selling non-audit services to their audit clients.The firms fought back successfully, using intensive political lobbying based on a variety of arguments ranging from the disingenuous to the specious.
Geneticists have done this, and turned an early torrent of specious results from genome sequencing into a trickle of truly significant ones.Ideally, research protocols should be registered in advance and monitored in virtual notebooks.
Two years ago, when Russia broke ranks, using specious "safety" arguments to sell fuel to India for two reactors that were running short, the Bush administration protested loudly.
In any case, it reflects the government's cost of borrowing, not that of a private company.To Zvi Bodie, a finance professor at Boston University, this argument is specious.
Instead, they blame rebel militias, accusing separatists of firing on peaceful people in an effort to turn the population against Kiev.So it goes in the Donbas these days: specious accusations, inflamed rhetoric, and a steadily growing body count.
Members of Congress (who seem to be in a position to know) expose the petitioners' hypothesis as specious, but the government's contention that the phrase was selected as a "term of art" is rather precious.
Mr Biggs was arrested, convicted and sent to prison for 30 years the trial judge described him as a "specious and facile liar".Mr Biggs's second claim to fame is a little more amusing.
And when jazz didn't provide the necessary funds, he turned readily to petty crime, which, along with the addiction, kept him in constant trouble with the law.The worst part of this harrowing chronicle is Baker's treatment of other people, particularly women, whom he could still charm with a kind of specious, fallen-angel sincerity.
Students occupying parliament have resorted to undemocratic means, and many of the arguments they and the DPP make about the trade agreement are specious.
