Word: argumentative
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...started thinking about all this, about how the Olympics had visited Australia and were now leaving the country better than it was before. I realized that you could make the argument, if all of this earnest testimony wasn't hogwash, that Cathy's triumph indeed was the most important sports performance since Owens', and was therefore in contention as the most important thing to happen in the world last week. You can go further: The most important thing to happen in the world in a given week hadn't happened in Australia since the first Aboriginal raft floated over...
...team left with its most compelling argument yet for being able to play with the best in the East...
...that he doesn't have an answer," a Gore adviser says. "It's that the answers are not good for him." Team Bush insists its man is just as eager to attack the Clinton-Gore record. He will push the argument that the Administration has presided over an "education recession," and he will try to pick apart the details of Gore's prescription-drug plan in an attempt to show it is as onerous as Hillary Clinton's failed health-care reform. The Bush people are also girding to defend their turf. "He will misrepresent the Governor's record...
...American girls fail to medal in anything, but they also showed how much all the past success and media attention has spoiled them. They whined non-stop about Bela Karolyi and how much better off they were without his dictatorial tactics-which didn't seem too convincing an argument when every single one of their seven asses hit the blue mats at some point over the course of the competition. Without Bela and his Romanian discipline, the American cause is hopeless. My blockmate disagrees: "They're normal, healthy chicks, unlike the Russian and Romanian peasant girls. Those gymnasts...
...Making the case for change in an era of prosperity requires a complex argument, and this may be one of Bush's most nuanced yet. In the wake of Tuesday's news about a record annual budget surplus, the governor pressed the case that Al Gore couldn't be trusted to keep the good times rolling. Arguing that Gore blows the bank with his spending promises, W. resurrected the same liberal ghosts that his father used so successfully to haunt Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race. Though he didn't use the word "liberal," Bush said the vice president...