Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...government's efforts to quell the recession will backfire. The fear is that the trillions of dollars the government is spending to safeguard the financial sector and boost the economy could result in massive deficits and mounting inflation. "People who are buying gold are buying into the argument that the Federal Reserve will not be able to take back all the liquidity it has poured into the market and protect against inflation," says James DiGeorgia, editor of the newsletter Gold and Energy Advisor. (See pictures of modern-day gold prospectors...
...need a few new jobs in this country after Bush got through with us for eight years,” he said, citing that small businesses produce 80 percent of America’s new jobs. For the most part, Dean hewed to the same argument for efficiency that Obama has been making across the country, rather than presenting the moral case for giving every American decent health care. He pointed out how the current health care system defeats the free market’s supply-and-demand curve. “Our system is broken,” said...
...although Kaplan and his business represented the single most potent argument against the SAT--namely, that the test was not a great equalizer but rather part of a system that could be gamed by people with money--Kaplan was the exam's biggest fan. He depended on it economically--his company became enormously profitable after he sold it to the Washington Post in the 1980s--but more than that, he sincerely loved it. He thought it represented a doorway to opportunity that could be pried open through the application of a little money and willpower. That was something that hadn...
...argument is airtight. Since Harvard is still the wealthiest university out there, and many other universities undergoing similar budget crises can still afford hot breakfasts, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t offer them...
health-care reform • advocates of are told by Texas secessionist to "Go back to the U.S. where you belong" • Obama will address Congress to try to repair the dog's breakfast he's made of • protester bolsters his argument that the government has no right to enact by brandishing a copy of the "U.S.S. Constitution...