Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judge Jackson makes a strong argument. The operating system with the most applications "wins" the market, he says, because it has the broadest appeal to consumers. As users settle on a platform, developers build more applications for it, which attracts yet more users. "What for Microsoft is a positive feedback is for would-be competitors a vicious cycle," Jackson wrote. With more than 70,000 Windows programs out there, it's almost impossible for any upstart to come along and grab significant market share...
...case years ago. Among racial intellectuals, Horowitz is "Not Our Class, Dear." Hating Whitey--with its inflammatory title--deserves a reading. Horowitz is angry and polemical, but he is also a clear and ruthless thinker. What he says has an indignant sanity about it. For cautionary perspective in an argument like this, it pays to remember that Hiss was guilty and Chambers was right...
...defending national champs, who fell to second in the national polls after a 5-4 overtime loss to then-No. 7 Dartmouth last Friday, gave the voters a convincing argument to reclaim the No. 1 ranking...
...with European leaders on the crisis, after which his foreign minister Igor Ivanov proceeded to sign documents that conceded to some Western concerns. The Charter for European Security upholds the principle that conflicts within one signatory state are the legitimate concern of all, which means Moscow signed away its argument that the West has no business discussing Chechnya. And an updated Conventional Forces in Europe agreement caps military buildups in sensitive border regions - which means that complying with the treaty would require Moscow to withdraw much of the army it has assembled in Chechnya. A declaration on Chechnya specifically emphasizes...
...There's a slippery slope argument," he said. "If the ASCR sticks to this point it's possible CCSR might redraw the line. It could take a couple of years...