Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...separate incident, a Cambridge resident was arrested for fighting with a Medford resident over a parking space. An argument ensued and the driver arrested took a chain with a lock on it and attempted to strike the other driver...
...Peabody resident reported to the CPD that he had an argument with another party. The suspect attacked the victim from behind, and threw him down a flight of stairs. The suspect then said to the victim "if the cops [interfere] they will catch a bullet and you'll get the next one." The suspect was later arrested...
...insisted Columbine's principal Frank DeAngelis. "We could have had the National Guard on alert, and it wouldn't have stopped this," he said. Metal detectors would not have stopped the rampage at the door, and he doesn't think the killers stashed their arsenal ahead of time, an argument that became harder to defend when it was reported that as a member of the audio-visual program, Harris may have had a key to the school. Maybe it would help to search routinely every car in the lot, the principal said, but that "is just not practical." DeAngelis passed...
...risk, no reward. "You have to be in the game to win," says Gary Wilson, whose daring buyout of Northwest Airlines nearly ruined him before minting him a fortune. That's about as basic as it gets--and the chief argument for owning stocks...
...personal experiences as a frame of reference. The book hops, often with little warning, from topic to topic and from literary form to literary form. But while its busy structure may be somewhat disconcerting, the clarity of each of Oliver's pieces and the meaning of her argument make up for its abrupt transitions...