Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This case is based on deliberate choices made by the defendant," said Gemma, the assistant district attorney, in his closing argument. "It is a case about hatred, the desire to control others....It is a case about revenge...
...later. Nixon became a political father to Buchanan, manipulative rather than autocratic, shrewd rather than certain, pragmatic rather than ideological. When asked by reporters in New Hampshire last week whether he was electable, Buchanan found solace in his old mentor. "Nixon and I used to talk," Buchanan recalled. "The argument was that Nixon was unelectable. He said to me, 'We will refute the naysayers by winning.'" That is Pat's logic as well...
Whichever, Diller's ferocity has stood him in good stead since his William Morris mail-room days; he attended a party thrown by childhood friend Marlo Thomas and got into a characteristically vituperative argument with Leonard Goldberg, then a vice president at ABC. The older man, impressed with Diller's "willfulness"--Diller's word (again)--eventually offered him a job at the network. There he helped invent the mini-series, popularized TV movies and had the perspicacity to hire young Michael Eisner away from his job as a CBS children's programmer...
...wife made that argument. She's been trying to wean me from total dependence on the Republican presidential campaign as a news diet. Whenever she hears Lamar Alexander say it's all going to be over by March 12, she sees me on March 13 wandering around like a zombie, mumbling the planks of Morry Taylor's platform as part of some kooky mantra...
...uinexpectedly, the bellwether Republican candidate in 1996. Clinton, who made sure to put in a weekend appearance in the state, won a handsome 90 percent of the Democratic primary vote. Both Dole and Forbes suffered commensurately, and Lamar Alexander, the third-place finisher, found more ears for his argument of electability. "There's been a backlash against negative advertising and he capitalized on it," says TIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson. "He seems to be the decent candidate, although people will still have a lot of doubt about him." Said Alexander after the tallies came in: "The Republican Party will never...