Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon also is hoping the new policies will defray some of the outrage over the incident at Fort Campbell, Ky., last month in which a supposedly gay soldier was bludgeoned to death in his barracks. And if that was a relatively isolated incident, there?s plenty of argument over whether the "Don?t ask, don?t tell" policy has made the situation better of worse. Discharges due to sexual orientation have risen every year since its implementation, from a low of 617 in 1994 to 1,145 last year. Pentagon officials respond that the increase is due instead to voluntary...
...enact by bits and pieces what the Senate declared it would not do when it voted 95-0 to oppose the Kyoto treaty, an international pact to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions that is strongly supported by Vice President Al Gore. Moreover, some politicians fall back on the uncertainty argument, asserting that the enactment of costly preventive measures now, before all the evidence is in, would invite economic disaster. Still others use the debate as an opportunity to portray Democratic presidential contender Gore, author of the environmental tract Earth in the Balance and the U.S. representative at Kyoto, as an environmental...
...future governments -? neither one of which you ought to be betting the farm on -? and now both sides are headed home for a one-month recess to make their case. TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir. "Democrats will make the argument that?s been successful with their base thus far -- Clinton is saving Medicare and paying down the debt, and Republicans are merely helping the rich." They?ve got a point: According to the Treasury Department, the middle 60 percent of American families would have gotten 33 percent...
...following night Bill and Alice find themselves embroiled in an argument about sex and jealousy. Both accuse the other of harboring lascivious thoughts from the night before, and their logic is playfully incisive until Alice launches into an odd (there's no other way to describe it) monologue about her dangerous attraction to a sailor the previous summer. Speaking even slower than the night before (now she's on pot!), Kidman tries to chew the scenery and ends up choking bigtime. Her monologue should be the key to the movie--a thorough exploration of how unrealized emotions can inspire...
...will never challenge Sofen's right to interpret the Civil War as he wishes. But I think every-one who cares about history should contest Sofen's argument that we must alter history because it makes him feel uncomfortable. EVAN C. WOODBERRY Tuscaloosa, Ala., July...