Word: argumentative
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...coming from a candidate who has worked long and hard to style himself as a compassionate Republican with his own goody bag of new programs. But the latest TIME/CNN poll, which finds the candidates in a dead heat among likely voters, suggests that people may be receptive to his argument. A solid majority of 56% agreed that Gore "would increase the size of government substantially." Gore advisers argue that Democrats have earned the trust of voters, that prosperity, balanced budgets and the prospect of huge future surpluses have put Americans in a mood to take a chance on new spending...
...anything, Al," said Ohio Congressman Ted Strickland. "I don't think he has to try to win every point and cram in every bit of information about every subject. The issues favor my party and my candidate, and because of that it's a little disconcerting that a good argument, a good debate point, would be diminished by the way it's presented...
...appeal includes a more than five-month window in which to file documents and a provision for allowing briefs to be more than four times the normal length. Microsoft claims that such provision are warranted by the complexity and monumental nature of the case at hand. Its argument, however, is ill-founded. While complexity and historical import demand a thorough and unbiased weighing of the facts and a fair adjudication the parties conflicting claims, they do not demand such an encumbrance on the court. The appeals court would be prudent to follow the government's more efficient counter-proposal...
ELTIS: They are not as contradictory as they first appear. Freedom from restraints for one individual may well result in slavery for another if there is an imbalance of power between the two individuals. The argument in the first and last chapters of the book is that Western definitions of freedom placed a greater emphasis on the rights of the individual versus the rights of the group than existed anywhere else in the world, and that this tendency was carried furthest in north-west Europe. The English colonies in the Americas were subject to weaker controls on the part...
...ELTIS: Once more the insider-outsider divide is critical. At root, this is an expression of the contradiction in all human beings of the need to belong and at the same time to differentiate themselves. My argument is that societies do not usually enslave their own members, except for what is perceived as anti-social behavior. Between the Dark Ages and Columbian contact ? aided by the concept of Christendom ? Europe came to form an important element in the collective identities (that is the way people saw themselves as a group) of all western European peoples. Thus the French, Germans, English...