Word: argument
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...Enough,” National Public Radio correspondent Juan Williams makes the convincing, if unoriginal, argument that many poor black Americans have succumbed to a “culture of failure,” one marked by high levels of poverty, illegitimacy, and incarceration, and low levels of educational attainment...
...postdiluvian upheaval in the U.S. through the battles fought in the Harrimans’ marital war. Both the commentary in Kalfus’ novel and the joy of reading it radiates from this nearly-pornographic voyeurism into the couple’s fights, the epic “blistering argument[s] encompassing all the issues that had brought them to divorce in the first place,” and their underlying emotional dysfunction—“when they watched news of wars on TV, reports from the Balkans or the West Bank, they would think...
...natured exchange of ideas and ideologies that’s advertised to us, we find that diversity is sometimes much more difficult than it looks in the pictures. In courses that deal with subjects as sensitive as race, religion, or political ideology, a heterogeneous classroom can often mean discomfort, argument, and uncertainty about what is or is not acceptable to say in front of each other. This is particularly striking in classes in African American, Latin American, or other ethnic studies, in which the very people being “studied” are sitting right there in the room?...
...Dallas, Mayor Laura Miller, a feisty former journalist, isn't buying that argument. The goal of the coalition she helped form with major muscle from Houston--Texas Citizens for Climate Protection--is not to stop the plants, she says, but to make TXU adopt cleaner technologies like gasification. Tampa, she points out with irritation, buys its clean-coal-compatible coke in Houston, after all. So far, she has won over 17 cities and hopes to raise nearly $500,000 to hire the best air-modeling experts and lawyers for the battle. She has no other choice than to fight...
...company propose conventional coal plants on the scale of TXU is pretty disturbing for shareholders," says Dan Bakal, director of Electric Power Programs at Ceres, a coalition of investors, environmentalists and public-interest groups. Miner-tough Mike McCall is having none of that argument. Asked if he's worried about the increasingly coal-fired environment his son, a high school freshman, will grow up in, he answers quickly, "No, because we are reducing emissions too. That's the beauty of what we're doing." The coal debate, it seems, is just getting fired...