Word: argumentative
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...electricity in western states. But until recently, President Bush was pretty much ignoring the problem. It may have helped that many of the energy companies that could benefit from the state’s power companies were based in Texas. Or maybe he thought the crisis would boost his argument that we need to drill more oil and make his buddies from the oil industry even richer. But the Dems cut a few deals to bring electricity back to the state’s high but reasonable rates...
...that's not the whole story. I do believe the stem cell debate is one in which reasonable people can differ. There is a purity and simplicity to the right-to-life argument that is clear and consistent. It is not an argument to be sneered at or dismissed as old-world quackery. The scientific argument needs even less bolstering: Stem cell research has the potential to improve life for all the living by finding cures for diseases that have defeated us since the beginning of time...
...other primary argument was that to some extent, it was also just Asia?s turn this time around. The 2000 games were in Sydney; they?ll be in Athens in 2004, then in Italy in 2006 for the winter games...
Microsoft's critics, however, say it is significant that even the court's most conservative jurists signed on to the unanimous ruling that Microsoft violated the antitrust laws. "These guys came a long way from oral argument to the time they wrote the decision," says Michael Pettit, president of ProComp, an anti-Microsoft tech-industry alliance. Pettit says it's clear that even the judges who were most skeptical about antitrust law turned against Microsoft when they read the record and saw how the company had done business...
...studies tested the efficacy of yoga? For lots of reasons. Those sympathetic to yoga think the benefits are proved by millenniums of empirical evidence in India; those who are suspicious think it can't be proved. (Says Coble: "There seem to be no data to substantiate the argument that yoga can heal.") Further, its effects on the body and mind are so complex and pervasive that it would be nearly impossible to certify any specific changes in the body to yoga. The double-blind test, beloved of traditional researchers, is impossible when one group in a study is practicing healthy...