Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turnout argument--that so few students would vote the results would be illegitimate, so the decision should be left to the council--is even more foolish. The council members who worry that a referendum will draw a low turnout should remember that they themselves were elected by only 18 percent of the student body. Many of their races were uncontested. How can the council claim any decision it makes is somehow more representative than a campus-wide referendum, even if the turnout were low? If anything, a referendum would likely draw a higher turnout than uncontested council races (witness...
...bill that proposed to give the issue to the student body in a binding referendum failed after a heated debate. Almost 20 minutes of argument ensued over whether the bill--which was similar to a motion that failed last week--could be introduced...
Because in the Year of Perpetual Polling, the public never caught the fever of the combatants. Week after week the argument was framed by the extremes: the politicians and the pundits created a cross fire in which every action was cast as either a partisan plot or an assault on justice. Yet no matter how appalling the details, the public generally kept its distance from the shouting and weighed the evidence carefully...
...Back home, concerned that French prosecutors had done a lackluster job, as Tricaud gleefully suggested, the Justice Department scrambled last week to bolster the argument for extradition. The decision is scheduled for this Tuesday. "I spent 16 years on this. I'm not going to lie down now," DiBenedetto promised...
...After an argument Tuesday night, Henderson allegedly pulled a knife and cut the victim in the throat, Pasquarello said...