Word: argument
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...ruled by fear and violence." Ryzhkov claims that the armed forces, Interior Ministry, FSB and those who have retired from them to join private security services "are running this country, own its economy and use violence and murder as habitual management techniques." A U.S. businessman in Moscow seconds the argument. "While you in the press are obsessed by Politkovskaya and Litvinenko, you've missed that half a dozen major oil executives and another half-dozen major bankers have been murdered in the last few months." Unlike Litvinenko's sickness, Russia's may not be fatal. But like his, it starts...
...what about the argument that there are two sexes and they need exposure to each other? They do. They need to know how to treat each other fairly, generously, compassionately, but competing with their own gender for the attentions of the other doesn’t insure anything good...
...research has showed improvement not only in academic subjects like math but also in attendance and behavior. Given that poor children of Hispanic and African-American minorities are most at-risk for dropping out, according to U.S. Department of Education’s 2002 report, this is a strong argument for single sex schools...
...issue, the strategists in the value of forcing Democrats to vote against proposals that large majorities of Americans support. In the new Congress, the Democrats' agenda does not include placing new restrictions on abortion or making women think harder before having one. But that just means the argument will be moving to new battlegrounds...
...Gordon began his argument by saying that all his plaintiff, Crystal Meredith, wanted to do was walk her son around the block to kindergarten. But Justice Ginsburg quickly interrupted with a question that suggested this entire case might not have been necessary: Why had Meredith waited until August, four months after the March deadline, to submit her choice of school? "I think she was living in Florida," Gordon said. The lawyer representing the school district did not challenge Meredith's standing to represent all parents of Jefferson County students. Instead, he used Meredith to counter the Solicitor General's claim...