Almost There

The Washington Post;  March 16, 1991 ;     74 words ......wrote, "Then came the penultimate ugly political argument equating support for the president with...appeasement." Did he mean the "ultimate" ugly political argument? Last year one of your sportswriters wrote...

THE CHUMPIES AT BOURNEMOUTH 2000 : MAJOR BLAST OVER 'SMEARS'.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  October 3, 2000 ;   Macmahon, Peter;   146 words ......of an astonishing broadside over the need for serious political argument . He first accused Labour and the Lib Dems of smearing...is time for all politicians to concentrate on serious political argument. Mr Major, 57, with wife Norma at Bournemouth, was speaking...

Fed: PM says Olympics should not be hijacked for politics

AAP General News (Australia);  October 13, 2000 ;     189 words ......wrong to hijack the Sydney Olympic Games and use them as a political argument, Prime Minister John Howard said today. Indigenous leaders...atmospheric to try to win out a particular side of the political argument?" AAP jb/daw/wjf/de KEYWORD: RECONCILE HOWARD 2000 AAP...

COLUMN: Keep religion out of political life

University Wire;  April 6, 2005 ;   Nate Charlow;   769 words ......contexts. In virtue of what is a political argument -- that is, an attempt to justify...others -- satisfactory? What kinds of political argument are out of bounds, and why? Here...epithets. That's because the point of political argument is to persuade. Persuasion is impossible...

Qld: Row over police in by election campaigns

AAP General News (Australia);  January 31, 2000 ;     242 words ......Beattie said he did not want police being brought into political argument after a slanging match over campaign material developed...photographs issue. "I don't want police being brought into a political argument," Mr Beattie said. "This could bring the outcome of next...

Doctor apologizes for words with policeman

Jerusalem Post;  August 28, 1995 ;   JUDY SIEGEL;   224 words ......apologized yesterday to police for having engaged in a political argument with an officer he was treating in the emergency room...orthopedist had "seriously erred for being dragged into a political argument when he should have been speaking only about his patient...

Conservative journalist George F. Will to speak in Claremont

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin;  April 17, 2006 ;   Caroline An;   41 words ...CLAREMONT - George F. Will, journalist and author, will be lecturing today on "The Political Argument Today" at Claremont McKenna College. He will speak at 6:45 p.m. at the Marian Miner Cooke Athenaeum, 385 E. Eighth St. The event is free and open to the public.

Political argument led to punch-up

New Straits Times;  July 20, 2005 ;     257 words ...New Straits Times 07-20-2005 Political argument led to punch-up Edition: Main/Lifestyle KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - A gathering of nine friends turned ugly when harsh words were exchanged...

The role of humor in political argument: how "strategery" and "lockboxes"...

Argumentation and Advocacy;  September 22, 2002 ;   Smith, Chris Voth, Ben;   787 words ......where humor could potentially act as a valid form o f political argument. Since its inception, the United States political arena...politics itself (Boskin, 1990). Traditional studies of political argument recognize it as a rigid and structured activity reserved...

ideal-regarding principle

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;    IAIN McLEAN and ALISTAIR McMILLAN;   87 words ......principle A distinction has been drawn by Brian Barry between ideal-regarding and want-regarding principles employed in political argument. A want-regarding principle takes into account all the wants persons happen to have. An ideal-regarding principle is selective...

GEORGE WILL TO SPEAK MARCH 27 AT COLGATE.(Local)

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  March 20, 2008 ;     120 words ......Prize-winning journalist and columnist, will speak about presidential politics March 27 at Colgate University. Will's lecture, The Political Argument Today: The Presidential Campaign and Issues of American Politics, is free and open to the public. It begins at 8 p.m...

Writing for a paper, well I declare

Evening News - Scotland;  March 17, 2000 ;   Steve Gilhooley;   160 words ......just how long it would take them to dig the dirt on Ken Livingstone. If they couldn't beat him by Plan A - political argument, it was a nap they would try Plan B - discredit him. I hope the people of London reflect on the morality...

COPS SEEK ASSAULT SUSPECT.(Local)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 20, 1997 ;   Mountain, Rocky;   66 words ......staff Police are looking for a man believed to have assaulted a bar patron in Denver, when the two became embroiled in a political argument. The two were debating the pros and cons of Ross Perot and President Clinton, when the man grabbed Richard Pepper, 52...

School Reform, Maryland Style

The Washington Post;  December 13, 1997 ;     473 words ...THE MARYLAND state school system is not waiting for the national political argument over school testing to play itself out. Following a project of many years' standing, it moved recently to replace its current tests...

Good teachers twice as effective as bad colleagues.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  May 20, 2007 ;     185 words ...Byline: Sophie Morris May 20, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A political argument is raging in Australia about whether teachers should be paid for performance. An economist, Dr Andrew Leigh, has found that there...