Word: argumentative
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...snobbery is also evident at Harvard during debates about politics—remember the fake IQ charts that showed dumb people vote for Bush—or any sort of moral issue—witness what happens if some poor soul tries to cite the Bible in an any argument over anything...
...market set the price of labor. Pay and conditions will be negotiated between workers and their employers; a new Fair Pay Commission will set minimum wages. A lot of cumbersome and outdated administration will be junked, and unfair-dismissal laws will be made more sensible. The economic argument is that reform will reduce the cost of labor and help the nation become more productive. Jobs will be created and incomes will rise as business and the country prosper. Howard's ideological grace note here is about individualism, freedom and choice. For the culminating effort of a veteran industrial warrior...
...Perhaps Australia's urban workers are much like their farmer cousins: when the going is good they are all for the market, but when it's tough they expect to be propped up by institutional benevolence. Of course, there's a powerful argument for sticking with an adaptable system that has served Australia so well - and that has evolved a long way since Justice Higgins' 1907 Harvester judgment on the basic needs, and appropriate minimum wage, of an unskilled male laborer. Nor does the case for radical change seem irresistible when Australia's recent history is compared with that...
This was hardly a novel argument, and yet it was rather unsettling that a bright and ambitious young woman should say it and, by all appearances, genuinely believe it. After all, haven’t we—all of us at Harvard, and Yale, and other such places—spent the past 20 years of our lives mastering the art of having our cake and eating it too? Isn’t that how we got here in the first place—by finding that elusive balance between schoolwork and sleep, between dozens of extracurricular initiatives...
...Kefalas’s book “owes a strong and almost entirely unacknowledged debt to” his previous works, although he did not use the word “plagiarism.” While “Promises I Can Keep” makes an original argument, Anderson wrote, it includes explanations, conclusions, and methods that were borrowed and not sufficiently acknowledged. The statement included a list of 22 instances where, he said, “Promises I Can Keep” paralleled his own works and did not include citations. Robert E. Washington, a professor...