Word: argumentive
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...would claim 73 of the state's delegates, with the rest of the delegation, reflecting the 40% that voted "uncommitted," free to pick their own candidate. This scenario would put Clinton within striking distance of Obama, with 1,677 pledged delegates to his 1,716, and also bolster her argument to superdelegates that she is the voters' first choice, since Clinton would overtake Obama in the popular vote if the two states' votes were counted in full...
...adults, parents need to suck it in and step back and try a whole lot of other things besides getting mad. Parents have to try, at times when the anger's not around, to come back to their son and revisit the issue at the core of the argument. They need to identify the kernel of truth contained in his anger, and go back to their son and say, Listen, you said this - can you tell me a little bit more about what you're feeling...
...what extent can the anger of adolescence be traced to changes going on in the brain at this stage of life? There's a lot of explanations that circle about as to why adolescents are angry. There's the neurological argument, the hereditary argument. Some parents look at their teenage son and say, What have I done? There must be something that I really stuffed up in his childhood for him to be acting this way. The problem with all these explanations is that, while they might have some validity, all of them render the parents powerless to do anything...
...take the libertarian argument, "Why shouldn't people be free to treat their own problems?" then there is no good argument against it. Antidepressants are not that dangerous. And let's put safety aside altogether. Let's say we had a really safe antidepressant, or an antidepressant that's as risky as aspirin or Tylenol. Why shouldn't people be allowed to assist themselves and be in charge or their own lives? In a way when you put it like that it's hard to argue. In some sense - in America, certainly - an argument about autonomy and people making their...
...there can be a strong temptation towards what might be called green-collar inflation, because the idea that environmentalism can actually add jobs is key to the new arguments for global warming action. On the surface, cap and trade and other anti-climate change policies look like short-term economic losers that will raise the cost of energy and lead to job loss. Certainly that's the argument of many conservatives - a study by the National Association of Manufacturers estimated that one of the main carbon cap-and-trade proposals before Congress would cost the U.S. economy...