Word: argumentative
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Indeed, it is the right of society to decide how many and what sort of immigrants it wants. Some might argue that Australia's modern multiculturalism tries to be too all-embracing. Instead, that argument holds, it should focus on both traditional European and new Asian sources, rather than treating Armenians, Bolivians and Zambians as equally desirable...
...look again at the bullish argument. In Britain, the number of unemployed has fallen below 1 million, depending on how you count, for the first time in a quarter-century. Employers in long-depressed areas like the northeast of England can't find enough qualified workers to fill the seats at call centers and other service-sector businesses. Labor markets are even getting tight in Italy, where jobless figures have long been in double digits. "From an intelligent secretary on up, you just can't find people," gripes Alessandro Ponti, head of Zetesis, an Internet services company in northern Italy...
...would have been easier to deflect had the White House been able to keep its story straight. But first it claimed the campaign had simply made "a mistake" when it included carbon dioxide as a pollutant in Bush's September speech. That didn't square with other recollections. "The argument that this was just a couple of words in a speech couldn't be farther from the truth," says Fred Krupp, who heads Environmental Defense and in a series of campaign discussions helped convince Bush of the dangers of greenhouse gases. Nor did that initial explanation square with Bush...
...world, why would Hagel pick McCain's signature bill to fight over? He's got his principles too. "John's bill has the unintended consequence of weakening political parties by depriving them of soft money, which will then go to darker, unaccountable forces," he charges--an argument critics find laughable...
...maybe that's an argument for the 22nd Amendment...