Word: argumentative
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...track records, state backing, and large market shares in well-understood industries?unlike shaky Internet start-ups. The dotcoms "were selling a concept, but most of the companies listing in Hong Kong have a profit," says Kenny Tang, associate director of Tung Tai Securities. What's more, the bullish argument goes, the Chinese economy is growing exponentially, and that should continue to drive mainland stocks higher...
...agreed. But Thomas Cook Airlines has said it will ground flights deemed high risk rather than put marshals on board. Officials in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal and South Africa are also refusing to comply. That will probably mean more canceled flights if the U.S. cannot make a more convincing argument...
...We’re not weighing in on the constitutional issues,” Kagan said. “We’re providing something new to the discussion...It’s an extremely convincing and powerful argument...
...argument dates back to the late 1950s, when the Supreme Court ruled that a civil rights group in Alabama could protect its members’ anonymity to shield them from retaliation at the hands of segregationists, Hafetz said...
...given back his pacing its sharp, irresistible snap, his wry social observation its bite and his signature backstage knife-play its deadly edge. But even more, he shows us without sentimentality or self-righteousness that a deeply moving, deeply personal story can be alloyed with a powerful political argument and that a single novel can express both an urgent, immediate sense of grievance and the melancholy perspective of an old man looking back on a long life lived in a tragic, tumultuous century...