Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been suffering from a fractured skull for some weeks and a jolt was enough to restart the bleeding that finally killed him. Evidence of a three-week-old fracture of the wrist as well as signs of apparent healing of the skull fracture appeared to support the scenario. The argument seemed so compelling that most observers thought the medical testimony for the prosecution and the defense canceled each other out--or that at least the defense had introduced a sufficient element of doubt to ensure the jury would have to acquit...
...Greenspan remains skeptical of the prospects for a "new American economy" until more data are available. "Regrettably," he says, in a typically meandering turn of phrase, "the argument for the so-called new paradigm has slowly shifted from the not unreasonable notion that productivity is in the process of accelerating, to a less than credible view...that we need no longer be concerned about the risk that inflation can rise again...
When the formal summit wound up, it was on to the joint press conference, which turned out to be one of the most extraordinary heads-of-state shows ever. Instead of the usual bland papering over of disputes, this turned into a public argument on human rights, with the journalists looking on almost as spectators. Some U.S. officials had predicted that the press conference would let Americans see just how difficult the Chinese can be to deal with and how strange the world looks from Beijing's perspective. That was how it turned...
Jiang wouldn't let it drop. In English, he burst out, "I would like to speak a few words in addition to this question." He repeated the familiar argument that China has a different history and cultural traditions, and so "it is just natural for our two countries to hold different views on some issues." And of course, he added, "as for the general rules universally abided by in the world, China also abides by these rules...
...work changes capriciously, depending on the needs of the story and the jokes. In its story lines as well as in fantasy sequences depicting what Ally is thinking, the show edges toward absurdism. That's fine, but when a whole episode is devoted to the consequences of Ally's argument with a woman over a container of Pringles, it shouldn't climax with a deadly earnest, cliche-ridden feminist speech delivered by Dyan Cannon playing a judge. (In fact, probably no show should ever climax with a deadly earnest, cliche-ridden feminist speech delivered by Dyan Cannon playing a judge...