Word: argumentative
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...plenty of references to the men and women on the front lines overseas as well and the danger they face. But in a less public way, veterans concede that they're awfully tired. You won't get anyone to talk about it, but you also won't get any argument. "We feel like we haven't stopped for years, says...
...White House reluctance to have him rally the nation on a daily basis. At some point his repetition of how we will smoke out the Evil One will lose its blunt impact, if it hasn't done so already. In his speech to business leaders, he offered assurances without argument or evidence. "The culture in our agencies has changed," he claimed, even though just 48 hours before, the scientists and sleuths had been pointing fingers at one another. "We've got a great response mechanism in place," he said, even though each time health officials have responded to one ring...
Rumsfeld has pledged "to do everything humanly possible...to let the world know that this is not against the Afghan people," but he has little chance of winning that argument. Many rural Afghans will believe anything the Taliban tells them about the U.S.--including last week's accusation that American planes were dropping chemical weapons. The only way for the U.S. to counter such claims may be to slow the aerial campaign and avoid borderline targets altogether. The U.S. destroys about 1% of an enemy force for each day of bombing; by that yardstick, there remain many Taliban targets...
...I.R.A. said it had made an "unprecedented move to save the peace process," and there was little argument on that point. British Prime Minister Tony Blair praised the group?s "boldness and courage," recognition that arms decommissioning is a difficult and radical departure for the I.R.A. Centuries of fighting the British in Ireland have been sustained by "the pike in the thatch" - hidden weapons stored for another generation of conflict...
...help make its argument, BMS added a slew of new lobbyists to its force, including GOP insider Haley Barbour. Longtime lobbying powerhouse Tommy Boggs took Bristol-Myers' CEO for sit-downs with lawmakers like John Dingell, the top- ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And BMS made headway in arguing that a measure to fix the loophole it was trying to create should not be part of the bill - or at least that BMS should be exempted. But when lawmakers figured out that dozens of other drugs could make the same argument as BMS, including products like...