Word: argumentive
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...freely with securities and insurance firms and included new privacy regulations for financial institutions.“Jim always had good reasons,” Cox, the SEC chairman, said. “He didn’t always convince everyone he talked to, but he never lost an argument.”Former Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (R-Fla.), a House colleague of Leach for 26 years, said Leach’s quiet manner had helped him carry off disagreements with his Republican colleagues.“If he were some kind of firebrand with his voting record...
...Things do not exist simply because you do or do not believe in them,” Nathan said. “If you don’t believe in trucks, that won’t stop a truck from destroying you.” Fortunately, this argument cuts both ways—just because Repent America believes we are going to Hell does not make this the case. But what if they are right? I don’t know what “backbiting” entails, but I’m probably a “whisperer?...
...book “Real Rape” essentially suggested that women are always coerced into sex. Effectively, according to these theorists, we can’t trust women who say they make choices of their own free will—women are always victims. MacKinnon’s argument, that poor women only go into porn because they are coerced, could just as well apply to poor people who choose other “demeaning” jobs. Dismissing the decision of a porn actress as a sign of oppression, while respecting that of the janitor or factory worker...
...life for casinos any more than to sacrifice quality of life for a casino moratorium. With proper implementation, expanded gambling will inject Massachusetts with much-needed energy and money. It is narrow-minded to deny these benefits to the Commonwealth while pointing to overblown social consequences. For instance, the argument that casinos will bankrupt poor people who trust their fortunes to fate neglects their free will and assumes that they cannot think and act for themselves. And to maintain a social conscience, part of the new revenue will also be used to treat gambling addictions—which, thanks...
...recently as December, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected Wilson?s first appeal on the grounds that the Legislature had explicitly decided not to apply their legal changes to Wilson's case. In the court's opinion, Justice Carol Hunstein wrote: "While I am very sympathetic to Wilson's argument regarding the injustice of sentencing this promising young man with good grades and no criminal history to ten years in prison without parole and a lifetime registration as a sexual offender ... this Court is bound by the Legislature's determination...