Word: argumentative
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Many believe that the government or a quasi-government airport authority, as in most foreign countries, from France to India, should take over responsibility for security--and fund it through taxes or surcharges. That way, the argument goes, the U.S. could have a standardized, coordinated professional law-enforcement approach to security, immune to the bottom lines of publicly traded companies...
Decisions were made concerning these games last week, and in a country suddenly united by grief and fear and anger, these decisions represented a rare point of argument. Tuesday’s games were cancelled almost everywhere, but the question of when to begin playing again loomed large...
...course, Democrats are already making that argument about Bush's tax cut, letting no cable show go unvisited in order to blame the hard times on the President. They declare with straight faces that the slowdown didn't "really" kick in until moments after Bush took the oath of office, and they delight in the opportunity provided by the shrinking surplus to accuse Republicans of raiding the Social Security trust fund and "endangering our seniors." Though intellectually suspect, it's a potent attack. Republicans returned to Congress after the recess to an internal poll that showed that voters' concern about...
Hauerwas is contemporary theology's foremost intellectual provocateur. His depth charges are just as frequently aimed within that world as outside it. That "Hauerwasian" has become a common way in theological circles to characterize an argument is an irony, given that the Duke University Divinity School professor set out to place himself at the margin rather than in the center of the theological mainstream...
...acted as if it were an inconvenience to get out of bed,” making the calculated decision to refuse the limo ride to NBC and wearing the same torn, unwashed outfit onstage from the previous two days. Cobain’s overdose followed an argument with NBC officials over what he considered to be a compromise of his plans—the band were required to play “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the hit single they were sick of playing. Each subsequent overdose/suicide attempt that Cross presents follows a description of conflict between...