Word: argumentative
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...argument escalated into a concert-clearing brawl at the Middle East nightclub Friday night, resulting in the arrest of a Boston man after he stabbed two people...
...book is stuffed with facts about injustice in the world, so stuffed that the facts run into one another and thus seem, in a weird way, to be immaterial. The argument for lowering the prices of anti-AIDS drugs does not depend on whether 40 percent of the people under the age of 20 in sub-Saharan Africa have HIV or 20 percent of the people under the age of 40 do. Either way, there are many people for whom the drugs are far too expensive because pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to lower their profit margins. The sad fact...
...White House would argue that this issue hasn't shown up yet in the polls, but I have no doubt they are just as aware as Democrats of the potency of the environmental argument - especially with swing voters such as suburban parents. This is the air we breathe and the water we drink, after all. Not some esoteric, scientific theory that has no effect on people's lives...
...Achmat and his colleagues had to fight on two fronts. Patent-protected prices put most Western AIDS-treatment drugs way beyond the means of South Africa's cash-strapped government, which was a primary reason for the government's reluctance to provide mass treatment. Unmoved by the pharmaceutical corporations' argument that protected patents were the crucial incentive for companies to invest in developing new treatments, the Treatment Action Group made common cause with AIDS activists in the industrialized countries on a two-pronged program - to press pharmaceutical corporations to slash their prices, and to press governments to allow developing countries...
...sense, this is an argument about where science stops and political value judgments begin. Both sides think they are right because they draw the line in different places-and do not acknowledge the validity of the others' position...