Word: argument
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...highest court, where he would leave behind a record in which liberals and conservatives could both find encouraging signs. He was a strong supporter of environmental and consumer protections. But in criminal cases he tended to favor the prosecution. And in a 1986 dissent he adopted the "strict constructionist" argument that a court's job was to determine how constitutional language was understood by the framers who proposed it. When it came time for Souter's name to go before the U.S. Senate, the first part of Bush's gamble paid off - there was no bruising confirmation fight...
...trader never supplements that intuition by asking her spiritual guide for market advice. "There's an ethic," she says. But with financial institutions the world over suffering the consequences of their collective lack of prescience, mightn't there be an argument for using every possible method to gain foreknowledge...
Several students interviewed by The Crimson said they felt that the major argument against the exhibition was the image of a lack of safety that boxing portrays...
...argument for talking to a government that includes Hamas is that Hamas is more like the Taliban and the Baathists than like al-Qaeda. First, Hamas is deeply rooted in Palestinian society and thus very difficult to uproot by force. It operates a vast social-welfare network and according to many polls is now the most popular Palestinian political party. For 22 days beginning last December, Israel pummeled its institutions in Gaza, but the war hasn't turned Palestinians against the group. To the contrary, it is more entrenched than ever in Gaza and on the verge of seizing power...
...talks to join. Last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a "phase of consolidation" in the E.U. once Croatia becomes the 28th member in a few years. Enlargement skeptics like Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy raise mainly political objections but the recession gives an added budgetary argument. (See pictures of Sarkozy...