Word: argumentative
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...Foresters at Boise Cascade in Horseshoe Bend state the case with scientific elaboration. The argument is self-serving, but not necessarily wrong. Dave Van De Graaff, who oversees 195,000 acres as region timberlands manager for Boise Cascade, gives an hour's dissertation on the hazards of mismanaged forest, and argues, "By saying you cannot build roads, they are saying, Let it burn. A lot of the West has too much fuel. It'll burn. We believe the industry is not the problem but a big part of the solution...
Inside the neurogeneticists' community there is more argument than consensus over the genes involved in mental health. Diagnosis of psychiatric illness is notoriously subjective and genetic heterogeneity is the rule, not the exception, even when diagnosis is more certain. In order to trace inheritance patterns neuroscientists focus on a genetic isolate population whose members suffer from a disorder with unusually high frequency. My lab's investigation of BPAD used a genetic isolate from the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Penn. Not only were we able to find several families with expression rates of BPAD as high as 20 percent...
...resident of North Billerica reported to CPD that she and her friend were involved in an argument over five dollars at her friend's residence on Harvard Street. The suspect attacked the reporting person, pulling out her hair, biting her index finger and punching her on the right cheek. The victim said that another unknown individual showed up at her house to sell crack...
...caller reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that two individuals were involved in a fight. Officers arrived and found two chess players having a verbal argument. Peace was restored...
...will win the argument. If the denier wins, it's a disaster, not only for the alcoholic but also for his or her family...