Word: argumentative
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...That’s the wages of doing this kind of profile.” However, she says she’s not hung up on the rules. “I’ve never cared about being an expert, never wanted my pieces to make an argument. It’s more like, ‘Gee, I met the most interesting person.’ It’s a more organic way of storytelling...
Hueston, basing his argument on the difficult European experience in stopping the recycling of animal feed, said he still supports IRS recommendations to ban risky materials, such as brain and spinal cord tissue, from animal feed and pet food...
...those Massachusetts legislators out there, I have a few questions—who stands to benefit from such an amendment? Is this a paternalistic piece of legislation, meant to save the souls of those whose liberty it curtails? Is this a semantic argument? Perhaps Webster has the final say as to who can marry. Must we call homosexual marriages something else? Maybe it’s a piece of legislation meant to preserve the morality of the state...
...argument is religious, then keep it to the pews of the church, and out of the chambers of the state house...
...states holding Democratic contests in early February, only four are in the South. But Edwards and Clark know their Southernness makes a larger argument before even a single drawled word is spoken: We are red-state guys; we can bring the fight to Republican territory. As Edwards puts it, "I can beat Bush in the West, the Midwest, the East and"--at this point he twangs his voice to sound approximately like Gomer Pyle--"talkin' lahk this--in the Sowth...