This article not only makes a far less compelling argument for innovation, it makes a great case for protecting greed.
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But this is a less than convincing argument for more television coverage.
Does that make it less of an argument during the election year?
And although it is true, as loggers argue, that extracting old, slow-growing trees and preserving their carbon in expensive furniture may represent a net sequestration opportunity, high levels of wastage make the argument less convincing.
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Stated less bluntly, the argument would be that Morgan needs more time to meet the new capital requirements which is tantamount to saying the same thing.
The more countries they serve, goes the argument, the less concentrated their risks.
Still, perhaps her performance is too strong, and there might be an argument for a less self-confident actress in the role.
But the judge appeared much less persuaded by the states' argument against expanding Medicaid.
Her argument runs more or less as follows: High-powered parents worry that the economic opportunities for their children are shrinking.
With less tax to pay, the argument goes, the rich will have more money to dispose of, and will split the extra between their heirs and philanthropy.
"We're less concerned about the prettiness than the argument, " says Connerty.
It will subside, so the argument goes, when headlines become less gloomy.
Because parallel claims can now be consolidated into one case at the federal level, there is an argument that the cases should be less expensive for plaintiffs.
But if you have analyzed a dozen or a couple dozen bull markets, I am much less inclined to think you have a valid argument, and that our current gold run could easily fall below the low end of the range.
If commodities were priced in SDRs, the argument goes, their prices would be less volatile.
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The main argument is that they tend to pay less than male-dominated occupations.
Ethiopia's government may or may not have benign intentions, but your argument would be more compelling were it less circular.
Even the argument for the fourth proposed channel is less than compelling.
Mr Baume said the government's love of launching initiatives - and the current economic crisis - meant that there was an argument for more civil servants rather than less.
It still is possible the court could dismiss the case for procedural reasons, though that prospect seemed less likely than it did in Tuesday's argument over gay marriage in California.
Still others claim national service is needed because civic involvement in America is in long-term decline (as evidence, they cite falling voter turnout and Robert Putnam's argument that Americans are joining community organisations less than they used to).
While Franklin did not win that argument, his words of caution are no less true.
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The argument for painful sacrifices in 2007 is much less clear in the public mind.
To divulge details of such discussions, their argument went, would make advice-givers less willing to speak candidly.
The trouble with this argument is that the Dean campaign looks ever less like a political revolution and ever more like an internet bubble.
As Pfizer and Merck defend themselves against lawsuits related to those drugs, having that kind of the argument--from the FDA, no less--could be very useful.
With wars winding down, the argument that the radios will save lives has less force, and the military will need to spend a lot of money up front before it can reap the savings from discarding dozens of legacy radio types.
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Abolishing patents would more or less halt progress in pharmacology, but there is a strong argument for charging different prices for drugs in poor countries.
Another argument for death duties is that big bequests make people less likely to work and to be enterprising.
We've heard that argument before (which doesn't make it any less valid).
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