Word: argumentive
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...dean—as they surely will—the dean should not hesitate to firmly stand his or her ground. He or she must not be seen as a mere executor of the president’s wishes. Luckily, Summers’ reputation for favoring intelligent argument among his advisors means that a working relationship and a strong Faculty leader need not be mutually exclusive...
...Indeed, an argument could be made that all five nominated films are independent; for what Hollywood filmmaker is more his own man than Steven Spielberg? He gets to do what he wants, whether it's a budget-busting remake of War of the Worlds or a medium-budget documentary-style thriller about the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes and its revenge aftermath...
...standard argument against taking action against global warming is that it might not really be so bad. After all, even the most sophisticated computer models can?t say with any certainty whether the temperature will rise by a couple of degrees Fahrenheit over the next half-century or whether the increase will be five times that-or somewhere in between...
...Republicans and Bush allies tell TIME that the speech will be largely thematic and avoid being too much of a laundry list of proposals. The President will once again restate the case for keeping American troops in Iraq, repeating the argument that the fight there is central to the war on terror. Bush will denounce the idea of a precipitous withdrawal but will argue, yet again, that as the Iraqi army gathers strength, the American presence will slowly but steadily be reduced. Republican allies of the President tell TIME Bush will call on Congress to renew the USA Patriot...
...just automatically chose to argue the pro-choice side, which served his educational purposes perfectly. I lasted maybe five minutes-maybe less-before I was trapped and whimpering in a logical snare of my own making. These gentle queries, little pokes and probes into the inconsistencies in an argument would be familiar to any logic student, but they were new to me, and unnerving...