Word: argument
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...literal, but political: Nicholas Stern, a respected former World Bank economist, released his long-awaited report on the long-term economic impact of climate change. Commissioned by Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and embraced by Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Stern report rejected the conventional argument that combatting climate change is bad news for the global economy. On the contrary, Stern determined that inaction would bring far worse economic consequences. If developed nations do not begin to cut greenhouse-gas emissions soon, the economic cost of global warming could amount to 20% of world...
...recommendations not on the grounds that the vaccine is unsafe—the vaccine cannot infect a person with HPV, and side-effects are minor—but rather because of fear that giving the vaccine to all girls will lead to an increase in sexual activity. Such an argument not only ignores the fact that women can contract HPV through non-consensual sex, but also reflects a dangerously naïve mindset. The idea that young people can, and should, be scared into abstinence is simply false and leads uninformed teens to engage in unsafe sexual behavior. Rather, teens...
Often, the argument for publishing names is that they will exist as a public record anyhow. This argument may have been true as late as 20 years ago, but today we live in a Google world. A campus newspaper and its digital archives are far more accessible than any public record. In fact, to access any public record, one would need to exert a considerable degree of effort—the easiest course of action might be to hire a background-checking service to examine a specific individual at one’s own cost, approximately $50-60 per name...
Many experts agree with her. In their classic 1944 book, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern built a mathematical model of economic and social organization--creating the foundations of modern game theory--by studying strategy games like poker. Poker is like life, the argument goes, a battlefield where the players constantly try to assess risks and guess one another's next moves. More recently, Anthony Cabot, a leading gaming-law attorney who represents online and casino operators, co-authored a paper for the Thomas M. Cooley Law Review linking poker to other games...
...could fill volumes detailing the geopolitical reasons America should abandon Darfur to its fate. The argument for military action, by contrast, rests on just two tarnished words. Last week a small crowd gathered in Kigali, Rwanda. "If you don't protect the people of Darfur today," said a man named Freddy Umutanguha, "never again will we believe you when you visit Rwanda's mass graves, look us in the eye and say 'Never again.'" Try offering a geopolitical answer to that...