He had one such argument about refugees.
But no such argument exists against the gas tax: all it does, in essence, is ask drivers to pay for the roads they use.
One such argument is that the middle class may be doing well but that the bottom rungs of the society are suffering more than ever.
And while Broadway traditionalists might use the occasion to illustrate and deplore the precipitous decline of the musical, you'll get no such argument from me.
Such argument has no place in economics.JUSTIN SANTA BARBARACambridgeClerical errorSIR Your article "Iran's war on fundamentalism" (September 12th) could well have been titled "Fundamentalism's war on Iran".
Looking at another neurasthenic diagnosis of Darwin's illness, Medawar says that there is no refuting such argument, "for there is no argument; the case is presented merely by asseveration".
One such argument, raised in a report by Marc Ross, a physicist at the University of Michigan, and Tom Wenzel, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, maintained that safety analyses to date had confused weight with size.
The book's author, Joseph Lelyveld, does write extensively about the close relationship Mohandas K. Gandhi had with a German architect, but he denies that the book, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India," makes any such argument.
While the argument for medical research has been that there is a compelling human need, he said there was no such argument for using young chimps in television advertisements, for example, which he described as "entirely frivolous".
And if Schwartz's book is really about the anguish of choice in general — and not merely about choice as a facet of shopping — there is no reason for any such argument to stop before it reaches, say, "a woman's right to choose".
While the committee will be exposed to hour upon hour of such argument from lawmakers, government officials, industry executives, academics and environmental advocates over the next days and weeks, the real action on the bill is going on behind the scenes.
