Word: argumentative
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...team argue that states play by different financial rules. They have to balance their budgets every year. The only slip so far has been by new Republican National Committee chairman Marc Racicot who when pushed on whether Jeb was raising taxes told reporters, "I think that argument could be made, yes." Eight hours later, Racicot issued a statement saying he did not believe Jeb had raised taxes...
Lopez noted that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit accepted such an argument in a 1998 case rejecting a subpoena of research records by Microsoft. In that case, the software giant had sought records from David B. Yoffie, Starr professor of international business administration at Harvard Business School, and MIT Professor Michael A. Cusumano, to defend itself in the federal government’s anti-trust lawsuit...
Lopez noted that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit accepted such an argument in a 1998 case rejecting a subpoena of research records by Microsoft. In that case, the software giant had sought records from David B. Yoffie, Starr professor of international business administration at Harvard Business School, and MIT Professor Michael A. Cusumano, to defend itself in the federal government’s anti-trust lawsuit...
...right, for the Junta trial has weird contours all its own. It happens that the victim was not the first Costin to die violently. In the '70s, during a family argument, his brother Dennis was killed by their father Gus, who was convicted of manslaughter. Outside the Cambridge, Mass., courtroom on Friday, a few hours before the guilty verdict was read, Gus Costin approached Junta, put his hand on the man's shoulder and said, "I don't hate you. I forgive you." Junta answered, "Thank you," and the two killers of Costin boys shook hands in solemnity...
...nine Justices put a hand in the middle, football-huddle style, and yell, "Let's go make history." The cases--about discrimination against transsexuals, parental rights over teen abortion or the death penalty for the mentally impaired--are shamelessly sensational. And every Justice offers personal and completely statutory-argument-free opinions with phrases like, "As a liberal, I think..." It's a Supreme Court that Judge Judy could be appointed...