Word: argumentative
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...thoughtfulness and rectitude bolsters Gore in much the same way Gore bolstered Clinton eight years ago, before two terms alongside the President tarnished his shield. Lieberman's past and present denunciations of Clinton's "immoral" behavior help insulate Gore from the country's disgust with Clinton ethics. (The implicit argument: Lieberman said what Gore felt but as Vice President could not permit himself to say.) The fact that Lieberman is the first Jew on a major party ticket makes Gore's choice historic, courageous and potentially transformative, although it was hard not to feel that Gore congratulated himself...
...successful deployment of political celebrity. The baby boomer pundit consensus by the end of the evening: The Democrats had made a solid, forceful argument that the American people should vote for their ticket...
...court rejected the government's argument that the oncomouse is not an invention because scientists do not have control over some of its features, like tail length and eye color, arguing that those characteristics are irrelevant to the animal's usefulness and novelty...
...embarrassing hole in the loggers' argument: The forests were successfully in business for themselves, fires and all, for thousands of years before loggers arrived. Further, as John McCarthy, of the Idaho Conservation League, points out, "We have had intensive logging for years, and that has not prevented forest fires. More roads do not lead to healthier forest, but simply to more logging...
...Cascade, who believe fervently- - even scathingly - that thinning the forests by logging is absolutely essential in order to prevent the sort of wildfires now blazing all over the West. Essentially: You have to cut the forests in order to save them. The Forest Service itself has often made this argument in the past...