Word: argumentativeness
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...number of dealers who sell them. It proposed cutting its hourly manufacturing costs in half. CEO Rick Wagoner agreed to work for $1 a year. GM's business is going down fast because consumers are already shying away from a potentially bankrupt company - which is part of GM's argument for immediate funding...
...This is so even though any amount in the hundreds of billions--the minimum necessary to enter the bidding--immediately makes a mockery of anything anybody has said or done in recent years about getting government spending under control. At best, you might be able to stir up an argument about "very big" vs. "very, very big," or about how the money should be spent. Politicians aren't the only ones dusting off their wish lists. Columnist David Brooks, channeling Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, says let's not forget state universities. Noted...
...other hand, who ever aired a commercial linking baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and washing machines? When were you ever told, "It's not just your flat-screen TV. It's your freedom"? This is not an argument for the bailout. But it is to say that when the country turns away from you as the maker of a symbol--well, it feels personal...
...It’s a show and tell really—it’s not quite an argument,” Smith said of her work’s thesis...
...emotional argument that the Kurds are using, but it's also grounded in regional self-interest - which is the Prime Minister's case against those who oppose him. Maliki has lambasted the Kurdish regional government for unilaterally signing oil deals with international companies and cutting Baghdad out of the loop, as well as opening representative offices overseas. He has also pushed back against the Kurds' attempts to extend their military presence into territory south of their regional border. "The central government thinks the Kurdish regional government behaves like a state, and the Kurds think Maliki wants to flex his muscles...