Word: argument
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...incompetence and that of his appointees have cost the lives of Americans. While the White House was working on speeches, people all along the Gulf Coast were desperate. They needed food and water, not rhetoric. Taylor Hebden Bloomington, Illinois, U.S. Revising Government's Role Columnist Joe Klein's argument that the disaster "should spark a reconsideration of what has become a casual disdain for the essentials of governance and our common public life" was right on point [Sept. 12]. Many government departments have seen budget cuts over the past few years, and we have arrived at the logical...
...that there is a responsibility that comes with this powerful product. The idea that as students at an elite university we have an ethical obligation to the world beyond our ivy-draped walls is perhaps voiced by the occasional PBH volunteer or someone of that ilk, but such an argument is rarely heard from the administration. In fact, people such as our president, who admittedly does make the occasional call to serve, seem to defend the philosophy that education can be a value-free endeavor...
Roberts subsequently served as a lawyer in the Reagan administration, as deputy solicitor general under President George H. W. Bush, and then as a private-practice attorney specializing in appellate argument...
...Netanyahu miscalculated the mood in the party and its willingness to follow him - in all likelihood - out of government. Even with a weekend of violence from Gaza, Netanyahu still couldn't carry the day. Sharon's consistent argument has been that the old dreams of a Greater Israel - the original fire that molded the Likud - were impossible in the current political and diplomatic reality. Netanyahu had banked on being able to stir up the rowdiest nationalist elements in his party. But either he went too far, or he was successfully cast as having gone too far by his enemies...
...It’s an argument which some of the real hard-line, right-wing conservatives who would like to go back to something more like an original understanding of the Constitution push,” Fallon said...