Word: argument
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...made this argument, Summers grew increasingly animated, at one point waving a writing utensil in an emphatic gesture...
...case of the Larry debacle, the Harvard progressive community failed to do just that. Across campus, students who would have otherwise been open to hearing from progressive voices were put off by knee-jerk reactions as the progressive community itself struggled to listen and develop a coherent argument for exactly why Larry was wrong. The opportunity was there to re-energize one of our foremost causes, and we decided not to lead...
...Moreover, the entire argument about Sunni participation is empty. Yes, the legitimacy of the election would be in question if the government had denied Sunnis the right to vote. But low Sunni turnout was hardly the work of the Iraqi government. To the contrary: the coalition authority and provisional Iraqi government did everything they could to allow and encourage Sunni participation. U.S. and Iraqi soldiers died to protect poll workers and voters in extremely dangerous places. Americans are being told that they must now reach out to Europe and bridge the transatlantic gap created by the Iraq...
...will give up its state support if Boeing--the U.S.'s second largest defense contractor--forgoes its tax breaks and R&D support. In fiscal 2003, the E.U. estimates, total U.S. government support for Boeing R&D was $2.74 billion, representing 11.9% of the company's profits. That argument has stung Boeing, especially since it is involved in investigations of illegal or unethical behavior in its relationship with the Pentagon. Boeing has already fired two executives and is cooperating with authorities. But Europeans fail to mention that Airbus' majority stakeholders (the Franco-German conglomerate European Aeronautic Defense & Space...
...courtroom during trials), maintains that TV has been unfairly blamed for the "circuslike" atmosphere at some trials. "Cameras only show the circus," he contends. "They don't create the circus." Ted Poe, a former Texas criminal-court judge and now a Republican Congressman, is another advocate. "The argument that cameras are intrusive and could somehow affect someone's testimony is bogus," he says. "Once [judges] find out the sky won't fall when a trial is televised, they will be more supportive of the idea." Yet the issue for judges in high-profile cases--the kind that get saturation coverage...