Word: retort
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Voucher backers--an unusual coalition of inner-city parents and conservative groups--retort that the judge misread both the Cleveland program and the First Amendment. They point out that Cleveland parents who don't like parochial schools can send their kids to the city's regular public schools, or to public charter schools and magnet schools. Clint Bolick, a lawyer for the Institute for Justice, which defended the voucher program, says, "No one can compel a child into the program or into a religious school...
Debates are the grandest way to size up politicians: what they think, how they act under pressure, how they retort spontaneous jabs that get past the moderators. Questions, even if predictable, help set a baseline for a campaign and provide a chance for the electorate to see the candidates in close quarters. It is an opportunity to see which, if any, issues divide the candidates within a party, and a chance for candidates to break out of assumed norms and take risks. Debates are unpredictable, a fact alone that might help encourage the media to turn their attention to issues...
Berkowitz, in his retort, denied the premise ofthe Docket Committee's argument. He said he neverasserted that Harvard policy required theformation of an ad hoc committee of scholars whosespecialties exactly matched...
Berkowitz, in his retort, denied the premise of the Docket Committee's argument. He said he never asserted that Harvard policy required the formation of an ad hoc committee of scholars whose specialties exactly matched...
...years their disappearance has loomed, like Everest itself, as both a challenge and a mystery, made all the more memorable by Mallory's classic retort when asked why he wanted to risk all to climb the far-off mountain: "Because it is there." But did he make it to the top? Or did he falter just short of his goal? Last week an expedition led by veteran American climber Eric Simonson, retracing Mallory's old route on Everest's Tibetan, or north, face, seemed to be tantalizingly close to some definitive answers...