Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other side had a specious argument. They had as an expert witness a professor from Cal Tech who had a miserable time," he says. "He ended up making a strange argument and getting torn to pieces...
...will jump at the chance to make up the difference. "Churches and private charities are already stretched to the maximum," Bailey says wearily. "They are not going to be able to make up billions of dollars. There is no way private [giving] can handle that. It's a bad argument." He pauses, then adds, "And that will become painfully obvious to average Americans when they see levels of pain and suffering never anticipated...
...rebuild her life in middle-class Addison. A few hours later, Ward, along with his cousin, Jacqueline Williams, 28, and her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, 22, turned up at Evans' apartment at 675 Swift St. According to relatives, Ward was high on crack. Evans let them in, and a brief argument ensued. Prosecutors charge that Caffey then shot Evans in the head with a small-caliber handgun and stabbed her repeatedly with a knife. Next, Ward and Caffey went into the bedroom of Evans' daughter Samantha, and stabbed the 10-year-old to death. The wounds on Samantha's forearms suggest...
What used to be a gap in the fossil record has turned out to be teeming with life, and this single, stunning insight into late-Precambrian ecology, believes Grotzinger, is bound to reframe the old argument over the vendobionts. For whether they are animal ancestors or evolutionary dead ends, says Grotzinger, Dickinsonia and its cousins can no longer be thought of as sideshow freaks. Along with the multitudes of small, shelly organisms and enigmatic burrowers that riddled the sea floor with tunnels and trails, the vendobionts have emerged as important clues to the Cambrian explosion. "We now know," says Grotzinger...
Although debatable, this is not a revolutionary argument. But Wattenberg has already provoked the sort of response book publishers dream of: when Clinton picked up Values Matter Most recently, he found himself moved to call the author. Their long chat prompted Wattenberg to dash off a newspaper column in which he quoted the President as acknowledging that he had "changed philosophically" during the past few years: a statement the White House now vehemently denies...