Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...homeless couple has been charged with starting the fire, which authorities believe began when they knocked over a candle during an argument. The two have pled guilty to six counts of involuntary manslaughter...
...addition, the rudeness on both sides of the argument really bothered me. The least she could have done, in initiating the whole rhubarb to begin with, was come up with some polite yet clever way of scolding me: "Lovely mountain bike. Perhaps it would function best in the wilderness." And I would not have retorted so contemptuously. "Such is the urban jungle," I would reply, eyes twinkling, and we'd both go our merry ways...
...Since they admit to selling sex and that is their main theme, they have the right to only hire female wait staff. Generally, though, when these defenses are posed to a judge they look upon them unsympathetically." The loopholes are there, but the courts make it a tough argument to support...
...exchange for Baghdad's accepting a new monitoring system, Defense Secretary William Cohen has been drumming up domestic support for a shift by insisting that the key to stopping Saddam Hussein from building weapons of mass destruction is to have monitors on the ground in Iraq - exactly the argument used by the European allies against last December's bombing...
...have been pushed relentlessly - some say unrealistically - upward in recent years, fueled by parent frustration over their children's poor performance and administrators' embarrassment over their schools' reputations. But while higher standards are an admirable goal, they can hurt the students they were meant to help. "There's an argument to be made that the bar has been raised too high, too quickly," says TIME writer Jodie Morse. "And although nothing excuses cheating by teachers, we have a responsibility to look into what kind of pressure they're under to have their students improve." Still, the main responsibility...