Word: argumentative
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...industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years. ANWR would ease America's more than $100 billion annual foreign-oil bill, the argument goes. And by pumping more than 1 million bbl. a day from the reserve for the next two to three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia, the world's largest producer. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall in tax revenues...
...grief counselors say, get over it. (Bill's and Al's aides, playing out the same melodrama in print and on cable, should too.) For now, at least, Gore's got a leg up for the nomination in 2004 (his argument: I beat Bush once). But Clinton has the grip on the Democrats, having installed his wife in the Senate and his close friend Terry McAuliffe as chair of the party, which might as well be called the Clinton National Committee...
Historians heatedly debate who is the best ex-President, but if Clinton keeps it up, there may soon be no argument over who is the worst. Al Gore, on the other hand, is a model ex-Vice President. Minutes after the Inauguration, he quietly repaired to a modest Tudor house in Arlington, Va. He began lecturing to journalism students at Columbia University (ironically, off limits to journalists), and plans to write a book about families. He's betrayed no bitterness, even when he presided over the Electoral College vote. But from his skyscraper, awash in his global celebrity...
...important that students, faculty, and other members of the community feel free to express and debate their views openly and honestly, in a climate that respects differences and that is fundamentally committed to increasing knowledge and understanding through reasoned discussion and argument," he wrote...
...Where have I heard that argument before...