Word: argumentative
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...Another argument for smaller blocking groups is to prevent large single-interest groups--such as football players--from blocking together, Rampell said...
Rampell called this argument "preposterous," however, saying that few sports have 16 first-years each season. He said a small blocking group size would increase the number of blocking groups whose members are from a single team...
...loses again. Here, he abandons the martingale for good and returns to betting the minimum. He lays down another $25 and loses again. After 10 minutes of winning some hands but losing most, his old lady comes by the table to bitch him out. A brief but subdued argument between the two, conducted in Portuguese, follows. It's unclear if either won the argument or if either could under the circumstances. With $150 down the drain, he takes a break for the bathroom. He'll be back in about five, he says, leaving his Player's Club card...
...additional assistance coming from the U.N. and International Red Cross. Most of the major humanitarian agencies are still not present there for political reasons. The U.S. policy directive seems to be that the real help will come only after the Yugoslav President Milosevic is replaced. The logic of this argument is hard to comprehend if one thinks of a humane need to help the refugees and of a political reasoning that an opposition to a government needs certain means to overturn the regime...
...also attacked a theory offered by several New Haven Police Department detectives that he killed Jovin in a crime of passion after an argument...