Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will never challenge Sofen's right to interpret the Civil War as he wishes. But I think everyone who cares about history should contest Sofen's argument that we must alter history because it makes him feel uncomfortable...
...verbal argument ensued at which time the suspect slapped the manager across the face. The suspect then fled on foot. No medical attention was necessary...
...unsafe, the secretary is well aware that even in the United States there is rising consumer concern about how such foods may affect the environment. ?The government is doing this to provide an additional piece of safety evidence and to show that the Europeans are making a false argument,? says TIME senior economic reporter Bernard Baumohl. The fact is, reports Baumohl, that no country in the world is as advanced as the U.S. in the field of biotechnology. The Europeans are at least five years behind in developing a state-of-the-art expertise. ?They are worried...
Many high-tech firms contend that workers like flexible arrangements. They sometimes earn better wages than their full-time peers and can often buy a package of benefits from their agency. With their services in great demand, the argument goes, permatemps can job-hop at will and learn skills at each stop. There's no denying that many free agents prefer it that way; yet there are many more who would jump at the offer of a full-time...
...book has been controversial, not because Mahbubani offers a particularly lurid answer to the title question--actually, he equivocates--but because of his belief that Asia is destined for greater world power, at American expense. Critics have called him anti-Western, but Mahbubani's argument is really with Western arrogance, with leaders who insist capitalism and democracy are the answer for all nations. In fact, he says, the West's hubris is accelerating its decline and polluting relations with proud, ambitious nations such as China and Japan...