Word: argumentative
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...nature of protest itself is complicated. In Oklahoma City, people have said the memorial is a protest against a godless education; thus it stands as an argument for prayer in public schools. They have said it protests a permissive society, that it stands against violence in the movies and on TV. "How do you measure what people take away from these things?" Linenthal asks...
...final of the seven articles, published in 1988, is both peer-reviewed and supportive of the In a Different Voice argument...
...enthusiastic advocate, and trade with Cuba, which he firmly opposes. Cuba "is the only remaining communist country in the world except for North Korea," Lott maintained, and "Castro has shown no repentance; he's running a dictatorship, a repressive dictatorship." There is, of course, no disputing the argument that China's communist leadership has, over two decades of trade with the U.S., enthusiastically embraced economic reform, while Cuba's has for the most part fiercely resisted it even while welcoming European, Latin American and Canadian investors. But even China's leaders themselves might take issue with Lott's exclusion...
Parents should intervene directly, however, whenever an argument turns violent. Most kids hate fighting--even when they're winning. They do it because they don't have other tools for dealing with their frustrations. Fighters should be separated to cool off, and a parent should later listen to both parties, asking the kids to help come up with a solution. The parent shouldn't cast one child as a bully and the other as the victim; fights among siblings are seldom this simple...
...term. Ten to 20 years, it looks like we will have poor runs, maybe in the negative for 20 years--there is a good chance of that. In periods of high P/Es [price-to-earnings ratios, a measure of how expensive stocks are], stocks have done poorly subsequently. Your argument is that people have learned something and that historical data are no longer relevant. But that is what the historical data...