Word: argument
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There was quite an argument between various people about whether it was better or worse to integrate,” William W. Freehling ’58, then-president of PBH, said recently. “What I recall is that it was a bitter fight and that it was close...
...former Crimson President Jacob M. Schlesinger ’84 wrote at the time. In the past, Commencement transcended the “celebrity parade mentality that has surrounded the event in recent years” and was instead a “fresh, well-crafted intellectual argument,” he wrote...
...that last argument - that cap and trade may place a financial burden on ordinary Americans - that may be the biggest sticking point for Warner-Lieberman or whatever comes after it. Conservative groups like the National Association of Manufacturers have released studies that claim the bill will ruin the American economy by raising the price of energy through the roof. But in reality, that scenario is unlikely - the balance of economic studies, including one by the Environmental Protection Agency, say the bill's economic cost will be manageable, and a raft of studies claim that the economic cost of doing nothing...
...world of increasingly constrained fossil fuel supplies, the only way to achieve lower prices will be through new policy that promotes the development of alternative energy - like cap and trade. But figuring out how to assemble a political coalition that understands the argument and shows deep support for climate change action - that will be the real challenge, long after Warner-Lieberman has been sent to the legislative graveyard...
...Instead, she may try another argument-that by making the race so close, she's earned the right to be Obama's running mate. No sooner had this weekend's battles of Michigan, Florida and Puerto Rico come to an end than whispers began to trickle in once more that Clinton will continue to try to pile up marginal delegates to compel Obama to consider her for the number two spot. "There are a bunch of women out there," said one member of her team, "who won't vote for him otherwise...