Word: argumentative
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...reportedly began yelling and refused to stop the cab. He finally stopped at the destination and the reporting party exited the cab without incident.May 5:2:07 p.m.: Officers were dispatched to Tuchman Hall D to take report of an assault. The reporting party said they got into an argument with an individual and that they were slapped on the wrist and struck in the face with a plastic cup.May 6:2:37 p.m.: Officers responded to a report of a verbal altercation between two individuals. The reporting person stated that someone they did not want to see had followed...
...then evenly assess what you have. Crises of belief—“what if I am wrong?”—do threaten one’s resolve to forge ahead, but they also offer a check against becoming enamored with one’s argument. Cognitive dissonance can be vital to the refinement of a thesis. It is worth pointing out that a thesis writer who begins in January may have little time for such crises and may run on pure belief up until the deadline, leaving the projected untested and unchallenged until grading time...
...faculty discussion of the divestment issue, Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann took issue with Bok’s argument...
...workers are compensated at the same rate as directly employed ones, and that wage levels are above the minimum established as a living wage by the City of Cambridge. Though the implementation of this policy has been called into question, progress on the issue should be achieved through reasoned argument and debate, rather than through extremist and attention-grabbing tactics that sensationalize and distort the issue. With the strike thankfully over, Harvard must now live up to its commitments; we hope that it will not try to take advantage of the summer break, with students away and attention diverted...
...since Murdoch made his bid for Dow Jones, a number of writers have asserted that the Journal lags precisely because it is so good-that excellence is expensive and high-quality journalism cannot turn a good profit in a competitive era. There are at least two problems with this argument...