Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal and it doesn't cost anything," Bossert said after the meeting. "The biggest argument against it is that it somehow diminishes the title 'emeritus.' I don't think it needs do that. It's just a separate title...
Another standout is Carolyn Cooke's "Bob Darling." The story details the strained relationship that develops between the dying title character and an alternately vacant and moody Manhattan woman. The growing distance between Darling and Carla is comically captured in a lengthy argument about the differences between naked and nude...
...deadlock and introducing a sensible if still questionable explanation for discrepancies in bagel quality: bagels are best if boiled, she intoned, and it is this practice--one which is widely observed in New York but not viewed as bagel-making-orthodoxy outside the region--which makes the difference. Her argument was just reasonable enough to prompt me to venture over the Bruegger's in the Square. But when I got there, around lunch time on Tuesday, the place was hopping and I had to do a little investigating...
...does not pass during which I do not hear the argument over boxers and briefs. Strangers curse at each other. Commercials blare out conflicting messages. Roommates quarrel while doing laundry, each vying for moral supremacy. There is never a middle ground; each camp swears it will never compromise. Party identification is often part of introductions as a litmus test for personality. The question is foremost in the psyche of American pop culture: boxers or briefs...
...death penalty brings vengeance and solace to the families of victims. In fact, executions must be speeded up; death row is too long." This argument holds that a central reason for conducting an execution is the shock value, the satisfyingly swift and sure justice of the chair. Society must rid its vilest elements in good part as a catharsis for those that they most directly affect. Besides, the state could save money: the long death row process of appeals and incarceration adds to an already costly punishment...