Word: argumentativeness
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...ahead of time. There are a number of gambles in the proposed federal budget and many of them will not pay off. Many of the plans that the Treasury has to improve bank balance sheets and lending will simply be a waste of money. There is no entirely convincing argument that helping worthy people who cannot pay their mortgages with their home loans will stabilize the housing market. The Fed's plan to buy as much as $300 billion in Treasuries may bring down interest rates, but that will not automatically cause businesses and consumers to borrow money and restart...
...discretionary spending--of the masses. But in this wretched economy, in which most of us will purchase only nonessentials that save us money or make us money, I doubt folks will pony up $359 for a pleasure-reading gadget. And thanks to Amazon's mysterious pricing policies, the old argument--that digital books are so much cheaper than their hide-bound ancestors--no longer holds...
...Others looked past the politics and questioned the soundness of Cheney's argument. "This is his place in history, and he's probably concerned with that," said Representative Jane Harman, chairwoman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment. "But he's wrong on the facts." (See the top 10 unfortunate political one-liners...
...argument goes that Medvedev needed to further sugarcoat the cuts and reforms - the most dramatic in the last 40 years. "You cannot tell these officers that they will have to be cut because Russia wants to make friends with the U.S.," says Dmitri Trenin the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "You have to tell them they have been cut because NATO poses a serious threat, and we need to improve our armed forces to be able to protect ourselves...
...there a little early and waited for her in the restaurant. We shook hands, and, just like a Government thesis writer, I started my argument off with numbers. “We are 96.92 percent compatible, so this should be the greatest date of our lives. No pressure...