Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cooper was stabbed on Nov. 22 after a furious argument between himself and another person whom police described as a middle-aged, stocky white male...
...excuse the Japanese, it just throws a particularly nasty light on the goings-on at Fort Leonard Wood and the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Generally speaking, sexual abuse is visited on women of the other side. One's own women are supposed to be sacrosanct; in fact, the most hallowed argument against having women in combat is that our men would be so busy protecting them that they wouldn't have time to do any serious fighting. When U.S. troops marched to the chant, "Two, four, six, eight,/ Rape, kill, mutilate"--which they did until well into the 1970s--they were...
Rawlins disputed her opponents' argument that students would not be able to make an informed decision on the issues...
...understand the argument that the Yale TAs are students and not employees; after all, they accept teaching positions as part of their financial aid packages. We realize that there is a danger inherent in allowing graduate students at Yale, who already are in a privileged position and likely on the road to becoming university professors, to make demands on the university. However, the merits of unionization outweigh the drawbacks...
...course, the defense would argue just the opposite. Many court observers contend that Simpson attorney Robert Baker's surprisingly persuasive argument that O.J. had cut his hand while napping was a turning point in the trial. Jurors were also seen nodding in seeming agreement when Baker contended that 6 billion-to-1 DNA odds still represented reasonable doubt. And certainly the plaintiffs' case suffered a blow when Kato Kaelin admitted he had initially testified for the prosecution in the vain hope that with O.J. behind bars, he'd be allowed to move into the main house...