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Welfare Motels: A Waste of Federal Funds, Harmful to Homeless Families ... - Page 20
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee - 1994 - 165 pages
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HUD Report on Homelessness--II: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development - Homelessness - 1986 - 188 pages
...undisputed throughout our previous hearing. Finally, Mr. Chairman, I believe we should get away from arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and in that regard I ask unanimous consent to insert in the record of today's hearing a column that...
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The Myth of the Welfare State

Jack D. Douglas - Social Science - 1989 - 520 pages
...very rough guesstimates of reality, and arguments over viii decipoints are much less worthwhile than arguments over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. My wife has worked assiduously over the years as managing editor and librarian for this far-flung work....
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Reauthorization of Housing and Community Development Programs for Fiscal ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development - Business & Economics - 1992 - 874 pages
...It is 37 percent on average. Mr. FRANK. That is over a third. Secretary KEMP. What is this? A debate over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Mr. FRANK. No. I am just trying to understand the numbers. Secretary KEMP. I admit that some communities...
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The Gospel and Its Meaning: A Theology for Evangelism and Church Growth

Harry Lee Poe - Religion - 1996 - 340 pages
...location at a given time (Luke 2:9-15; cf. Num. 22:2135). In similar fashion with the medieval debate over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, twentieth-century Christian scholarship has focused attention on the inconsequential variations in...
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Consumer Access to Home Testing Services and Devices: Hearing ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 218 pages
...margins of your jurisdiction here, because we're talking about such questions analogous to whether how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, whether a diagnosis can be made of past conduct, the fact that somebody smoked marijuana 2 weeks ago. That's...
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Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction

Luciano Floridi - Computers - 1999 - 260 pages
...excellence one should be careful not to waste too much time discussing via a BBS or a mailing list how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, whether computers can think, or the best definition of realism. USENET is the greatest BBS on the network,...
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The Great Tribulation--Past Or Future?: Two Evangelicals Debate the Question

Thomas Ice, Kenneth L. Gentry - Religion - 228 pages
...inconsequential side issue stuffed away in some corner of theology, such as the debates by the Schoolmen over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. • We both agree that this element of prophecy does not exhaust biblical eschatology, in that we both...
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Drug Control, Update on United States-Mexican Counternarcotics ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Caucus on International Narcotics Control - Political Science - 1999 - 268 pages
...mount joint police operations and engage in deep cooperation, we remain caught up in legalistic debates over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. That Mexico might even have contemplated extraditing US Customs agents after the Casablanca affair,...
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Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance

Mark Royden Winchell - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 400 pages
...titillators of the School" (36). In other words, only the sort of people who would delight in arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin would criticize the choice this woman has made. In "Twilight Excursion," a man mired in the world of...
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Should I Medicate My Child?: Sane Solutions for Troubled Kids ..., Volume 54

Lawrence H. Diller - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 258 pages
...a practical point of view, these diagnoses are about as helpful as the medieval theological debate over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The large amount of crossover and blending among the categories renders them nearly useless for the...
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