Word: argumentative
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Counter added that Baldwin was worthy of commemoration in the school’s name “because she was a great Cambridge educator,” and refuted the argument some put forward that Agassiz’s racist thinking was in keeping with his times...
...evidence doesn’t look good: the agreement the employees signed specifically waived “any claim for age or other types of discrimination prohibited by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.” So let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that Allstate did have a discriminatory intent when it fired the 6,400 workers. Or, better yet, suppose that it had chosen to discriminate by firing a group of 6,400 workers, 90 percent of whom were African-American. Could it stop paying benefits and rehire them...
...argument intensified, Mayor Michael A. Sullivan said the tenor of the meeting was the result of “frustration and venting and anger and mistrust” at the city’s two major institutions of higher education...
...Prepublication reviews have lavished praised on Wild Ginger for being "true-to-life." Too often, however, this true-to-life Asian woman found the characters speaking not in realistic dialogue but in political diatribe. Take Wild Ginger's argument with her mother, in which she lambastes her father: "He was a spy. Spying was his job. He was sent by the Western imperialists. Helping China thrive was his disguise. It was false. Helping the Western imperialists to exploit China was the truth...
...When this came to my attention, I insisted, though there was no argument, that we needed to put in place much more satisfactory procedures so that this did not happen again,” Summers said...