Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their heads--and in the week of Ronald Reagan's 85th birthday, no less--Gingrich and party chairman Haley Barbour were struggling to come up with a story that could paper over this growing gulf and restore a broad theme to their election-year drive. Their best effort: an argument that what their party stands for is major tax reform. Both went out of their way to emphasize that the flat tax is only one of several proposals for overhauling the hated federal tax system...
...argument for Socrates' African origins, for example, is based largely on posthumous portraits that show him having a snub nose and broad mouth. But this is hardly conclusive, Lefkowitz contends, since the Greeks also portrayed the Scythians of Russia as having these supposedly Negroid features. Moreover, if Socrates had been part African, that fact would surely have been satirized by his critics, like the comic playwright Aristophanes...
...most substantive argument against a pass-fail system is that students would stop working hard if they knew no one else could tell whether they had done A or B, or C level work. This concern would be especially great during the new system's implementation. Believing their late-night study orgies finished forever, students would go positively wild--and probably a little bit lazy...
...trying to argue that China is a paradise for human rights lovers. This is certainly not true. But nor should it be the major point of concern, according to my argument. Take a moment to look at the United States--a democratic country whose government is always showing off how much freedom it grants its citizens. We must not forget that America likewise leads the world in rates of crime and delinquency...
...painful reprise of 1988, when he was beaten back by George Bush, another patrician playing the populist and making dubious promises about taxes. "Dole spent 35 years on the public payroll and became a multimillionaire," Forbes teases lethally in Iowa. "But I won't use the class-warfare argument against him." A tough, genial and private man, Steve Forbes has surely known his share of sorrow. But it is hard to imagine his enduring as painful a season as Bob Dole now faces in these last cold days before his fate is decided...