Word: argumentive
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...Tenenbaum's legal team had initially planned to argue that Tenenbaum's actions constituted "fair use" of the copyrighted material, but Gertner rejected the argument early Monday morning before the trial started. The defense then attempted to portray Tenenbaum as a "young child" exploring the boundaries of a digital world, while framing the recording industry's recent struggles as a "coming of age story" that parallels technological advances...
...worry about volatile oil prices, nuclear power is hot again. The fear of nuclear accidents like the one at Three Mile Island in 1979 or at Chernobyl in 1986 has begun to fade as nuclear's backers make their case in a world growing warmer. Nuclear plants, goes their argument, provide a steady supply of relatively cheap energy with zero carbon emissions. The new enthusiasm for nuclear is measurable. Over the next decade, the world is expected to build 180 nuclear power plants, up from just 39 between 1999 and today. (See pictures of the worst nuclear disasters...
...daily at my project leader, urging her to dispense with her preconceptions, Polman’s argument seems applicable. Do my educated Ugandan colleagues at the NGO refuse to commit themselves to a minimal standard of efficiency because they know their slack will be picked up by one of the American, Australian, or Canadian workers here, or compensated for by funding from an international donor? This could be the case, considering that I eventually scheduled the interview with the microfinance director myself, without my project leader’s help...
...Zimbabwe's old white Rhodesian settlers are just as riveted by the past. They argue that until Mugabe and his supporters give back farms that were appropriated from whites - something no Zimbabwean leader endorses as either practical or just - there is no hope for economic recovery. When that argument is put directly to Mugabe at an investors' conference, the President, 85, answers with a fluent 14-minute history lesson on how Zimbabwe won its independence. The point of this polemic? The responsibility for any problems with land reform, concludes Mugabe, "is a British...
...columnist Steven Pearlstein's contention in the morning paper that even an imperfect health-reform plan beats the status quo. The President circulated the column to his senior staff, Emanuel recalls, declaring, "This is required reading." And that night at his prime-time news conference, Obama repeated Pearlstein's argument. Top aides say he spends at least two hours a day in meetings and on the phone with key members of Congress, particularly those on the Senate Finance Committee - some of whom hear from the President almost daily. His message to them usually boils down to two words: Keep moving...