Some of those characters argue or carp in give-and-take as sharp as a newly stropped tonsorial tool.
But no matter what we argue or where we stand, we have always held certain beliefs as Americans.
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You can argue whether or not that has any significance in the tech world, or the history of inventions.
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Sander Greenland, a statistician at the University of California, Los Angeles, says the data are "ambiguous" and can be spun either to argue for or against a risk of cancer death.
We either reject the information out of hand (flight) or argue vociferously against it (fight).
You have exactly 77 hours to argue over whether or not these are for real.
As one sad example, pundits and politicians argue whether inflation or inflation describes the current economic reality.
You could argue that one or two smaller entities within the Samsung group had outperformed the huge Electronics flagship.
If we can become more conscious about the frameworks we function within, we can do ore to reshape them or argue for their demise.
You could argue one way or the other whether task list belongs in there, but the link between email, address book, and calendar is extremely tight.
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The researchers said they don't know whether a weight difference caused couples to argue more, or whether conflict caused one partner to eat more and become overweight.
From Rasputin's point of view, the more unprincipled and incompetent the men who ran Russia, the better: they were less likely to argue back, or to have ideas of their own.
And we can argue about that, we can argue about whether or not the top 2 percent of taxpayers in America deserve another tax cut as part of the election, and then that can be decided by the election.
Academics can argue whether dividends or buybacks are the better method of returning capital, Spellman says, but given the current hunger for yield he thinks it would have been really interesting if Cook had opted to double the dividend rather than just a 15% increase.
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Some might argue that no investigation or research would have uncovered the complex, deliberate fraud involved in an Enron.
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The one where we argue about how close or not-so-close he is, or whether or not it's reasonable or delusional to expect he breaks Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 majors.
"If you look at the results last cycle it's hard to argue that being early or being big was much of an advantage, " says Alex Conant, an adviser to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
While some may get more or less than in previous years - or would argue that the formula should be changed - broadly speaking this year's budget can be described as a standstill budget.
He felt there may be even more problems if we didn't play, and you could not argue with that advice or logic if that was what he felt, no matter how irrelevant you regarded a football match as being after lives were lost.
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Or, some might argue, a cleaner solution would be to physically separate the retail bank and investment bank - or to put it in starker terms, to break up Barclays.
But if you consider the core conservative position that race should not matter or does not matter, if you argue from a policy standpoint that race does not matter or should not matter, how can you justify considering race?
We can argue all day about this or that action, but the proof is in the numbers.
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In social settings, never argue about politics, religion or your fantasy draft.
The big thing Mr Bush did in the Arab world was not to argue for an election here or a loosening of controls there.
Macro funds are more demanding because they follow, or one might argue, create opportunity, like the U.S.-based funds that bet against the housing bubble.
Some people will always argue that everything fails sooner or later.
By focusing subsidies and tax breaks on a set of industries or companies, argue opponents, governments open themselves up to being captured by these firms.
But that does not argue for doing nothing, or talking tougher.
And advocates on both sides, both the law's critics and its staunchest proponents are going to try to argue that it is working or that it isn't working.
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