Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That argument, however, is difficult to take seriously in a country with 270 million people spread over a vast continent...
Besides the obvious argument that football is unfairly singled out as the only varsity athletic team unable to compete in postseason play, there is a more forceful argument...
...staff's position is also disturbing from a journalistic point of view. In discussing the Undergraduate Council, the opinion becomes mired in questions of proportionality, allowing its ideologically-driven argument to crowd out all further commentary...
...when we can do it." Hunter's many defenders--he is so popular that he has been elected to seven four-year terms, five without opposition--reply that the police are covering up their own ineptitude. The cops have hopelessly botched the investigation from the start, this argument goes, and are now so uncooperative they will not even share evidence with Hunter's office...
...days later, in a calmer state, Gumbel explained that he felt the move by his superiors was simply "bad strategy." He added, "Someone could contend that the story was news and you shouldn't hold news. I don't feel compelled by that argument...