Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Illinois's Republican governor George Ryan have both made strong appeals last month to end the embargo, while Missouri GOP senator John Ashcroft is currently promoting a bill to ease restrictions on sales of food and medicine to Cuba. The Ibero-American summit will likely fuel the anti-embargo argument, since the event has clearly provided a boon for the anti-Castro opposition inside Cuba, and whatever kudos Castro has accrued from the arrival of foreign dignitaries has been tempered by their challenges to his human rights record. Comparisons with the U.S.-China relationship may become irresistible...
...days McCain is finding ways to make his sweet spot grow. He never misses a chance to demonstrate how his signature issue--"six- and seven-figure soft-money donations that buy access and influence"--prevents Congress from solving problems that affect people's lives. Bill Bradley makes a similar argument, but when McCain talks about it, his zeal becomes contagious--and his message begins to seem unified and encompassing. "I don't mean to sound like there is one root cause of all our problems," he told 200 voters in New Hampshire last week, "but there is a significant cause...
When Bush is challenged about his mastery of the material, his response goes straight to his vision of presidential leadership, the argument that too much knowledge can clutter a vision. His experts can sort through the details, he says; it is more important for a President to have strong convictions about where he wants to take the country. The spirit he invokes is that of Ronald Reagan, who, as Ted Kennedy once noted, could forget your name but always remembered his goals. But 1999 is not 1979, Bush's critics reply: the nation is not shuddering through a cold...
...come. It's a powerful instinct. It's called being a mom and being a dad." He then segued from immigration to an ardent defense of free trade, arguing that only increased trade would improve the lives of Mexicans enough to keep them in Mexico. It was an argument aimed directly at the protectionist wing of Bush's party, and it was not one that had been fed to him by advisers. His discourse wasn't weighed down with policy detail, but it was an example of what Bush can be at his best--genuine, articulate and knowledgeable...
...argument has never been that the [council] deserves more money because they're doing such a great job," said former council President Beth A. Stewart '00, who supports the increase...