Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amendment battle is likely to erode what little public support the prosecutor still has. ?Ken Starr seems to give little heed to the basic right of all Americans to read what they want, free from government surveillance,? says Steven Shapiro, legal director of the ACLU. It?s a powerful argument -- and with Barnes & Noble set to join the fight, it all makes for the kind of ding-dong courtroom diversion that Starr really doesn?t need right...
...article Lee makes the absurd argument that the River Houses are inferior to the Quad Houses because they are infested with centipedes, ivy-covered brick, white moldings, fireplaces and winding stairs. I for one like centipedes. They help to build character...
...different occasions to the fluorescent posters stapled to the lamp posts and bathroom stalls of the University by numerous organizations on campus. Some students may ignore the different views suggested to them as they wait for their bus ride to class, while others feel compelled to voice their counter argument. Still, some can do nothing but tug at those advertisements and toss them in the trash, omitting any possible threat that they perceived. They simply pretend those opinions don't exist...
...grandmother and her grandson had a verbal argument over misplaced property. They both refused a restraining order...
...highly credentialed recent law-school graduates hired by individual Justices to help research cases and draft opinions--who helped manipulate the results. The conservatives prevailed in the racial-harassment case, he says, in part because a brilliant conservative clerk "spoon-fed" a new and impressionable Justice Anthony Kennedy an argument that pried him away from the liberal position. Critics of the book question Lazarus' accounts. They say he paints conservative conspiracies where none existed. Lazarus says a weekly dinner at a Chinese restaurant was a meeting of the "full cabal," but conservatives say some liberal clerks attended and nothing sinister...