Word: argument
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...freely with securities and insurance firms and included new privacy regulations for financial institutions.“Jim always had good reasons,” Cox, the SEC chairman, said. “He didn’t always convince everyone he talked to, but he never lost an argument.”Former Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (R-Fla.), a House colleague of Leach for 26 years, said Leach’s quiet manner had helped him carry off disagreements with his Republican colleagues.“If he were some kind of firebrand with his voting record...
...Biden's argument against Rudy was actually substantive: He accused Giuliani of taking credit for improvements in crime in New York City during his tenure as mayor - improvements, Biden said, that should be laid at the foot of the 1994 crime bill, which put 100,000 new cops on the street and boosted both prison sentences and funds for rehabilitation of criminals. Much of the measure has been undercut by the Bush Administration - without so much as a peep from Giuliani, Biden said. In effect, Biden was calling the mayor dishonest...
...fierce and limitless desire to reverse the depredations of the Bush Administration. But just when it was beginning to seem that her evasions were more potent than her opponents' assaults, she stumbled - badly, perhaps - on the question of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. She made the argument for it, then denied she favored it. "Unless I missed something," Edwards said as he nailed the coffin, "Senator Clinton said two different things in the course of about two minutes...
...Things do not exist simply because you do or do not believe in them,” Nathan said. “If you don’t believe in trucks, that won’t stop a truck from destroying you.” Fortunately, this argument cuts both ways—just because Repent America believes we are going to Hell does not make this the case. But what if they are right? I don’t know what “backbiting” entails, but I’m probably a “whisperer?...
...life for casinos any more than to sacrifice quality of life for a casino moratorium. With proper implementation, expanded gambling will inject Massachusetts with much-needed energy and money. It is narrow-minded to deny these benefits to the Commonwealth while pointing to overblown social consequences. For instance, the argument that casinos will bankrupt poor people who trust their fortunes to fate neglects their free will and assumes that they cannot think and act for themselves. And to maintain a social conscience, part of the new revenue will also be used to treat gambling addictions—which, thanks...