Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is anything Republicans want more than simply to win the argument, it is to hand a loss to Bill Clinton. And now, having seized the center on welfare reform, the budget and other G.O.P. causes, the President threatens to outflank the Republicans again--this time on the one piece of ideology that holds the party together. Tax cuts, declared Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1995, were the "crown jewel" of his Contract with America...
...rated the party 22 points ahead of the President on handling the issue. The change partly reflects the verdict of most independent analysts, who say Clinton's measure is a better deal for the middle-class taxpayer than what the House and the Senate are offering. And when the argument turns to the details of the various proposed tax breaks, Clinton has positioned himself as the champion of hardworking parents: while he pushes his education tax credits, for instance, the same Republicans who wanted to close the Education Department will be fighting to index capital-gains taxes so that investment...
...glance, adding former Warsaw Pact allies of the Soviet Union to the ranks of the triumphant NATO alliance seems a good idea. After all, the argument went, these were the captive nations, now freed, and they deserve the advantages of membership, including the guarantee that an attack on any member will be considered an attack on all of them...
...having hymned the "unrelenting mercy of light" and the "shallows' scriptures" of his native St. Lucia as he should. In the end, however, he realizes that what has sustained him all along are the "immortelle" and "wild mammy-apple" of his "generous Eden." As the waves of his melodious argument wash up at last on the shores of thanksgiving and affirmation, one realizes that there is no more serious, or more sonorous, writer living...
...knew that three weeks on the road wouldn't make us experts on local issues. (On the other hand, that didn't seem a good argument for staying home.) TIME has journalists based throughout the country. With Nation editor Priscilla Painton prodding them to think unconventionally and dig deeper, they spent months scouting out stories and reporting them in depth. She and Steve Koepp, in addition to spending time on the bus, edited the issue. It features the pictures of Diana Walker, who took a break from her usual assignment as our White House photographer to join...