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She engages in a lesbian tryst behind her boyfriend's back, and she apparently deliberately starts an argument between a couple on a park bench by openly flirting with the boy.
There is no argument that those franchises need as much help as they can get.
I think that this kind of movie should have a good argument, may be from the real myth, and good special effects for being a nice film where you, furthermore you enjoy the movie, learn about Mythology.
It's in the bill of rights and the constitution, their really shouldn't be this much argument about it.
That was the point of argument that he actually had .55
Even the EU has used this argument to justify its refusal to increase its target for greenhouse-gas reduction for 2020 from 20% to 30%, although this would be an equitable burden for Europe to bear on the path towards meeting the two-degree target.
There is a strong epistemological argument, elaborated by Karl Popper, in favor of the open society: Our understanding is inherently imperfect; ultimate truth, the perfect design for society, is beyond our reach.
In fact, that the open society should take a variety of forms follows from the epistemological argument.
Moreover, the official US argument – that China should invest its money in existing institutions, such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, because a Chinese-led bank would likely have governance problems – smacks of hypocrisy.
We Russians are pleased to hear these enlightened words, yet Putin adds a “but” to his argument, which weakens it considerably.
Plausible as this argument may be, it is not the basis of the plaintiffs’ case in Juliana.
In Pinochet’s case, there is an ahistorical aspect to this argument.
Japan, the argument went, was too different in too many ways for the North Atlantic to serve as an economic-development model.
There is some logic to this argument.
Granting, for the sake of argument, the force of this logic (and even its critics could hardly deny its coherence), it would be foolish to underestimate the risk of runaway inflation and underplay the economic and social harm it would cause.
Local experts had previously warned Yam about this, but he dismissed their argument in a way that one economist who was present at a meeting with him described as “demeaning and contemptuous”.
The only powerful argument against helicopter drops is the one that Heise and Hamada stress – the political risk of overuse.
So a valid argument can be made that the dangers of excessive monetary finance are so great that it should be prohibited entirely, even if in some circumstances it would be the best policy.
But a valid argument is not necessarily a convincing one.
Of course, opponents can counter with a “slippery slope” argument: Only total prohibition is a defensible line against political pressure for ever-laxer rules.
And in countries with a recent history of excessive monetary finance – for example, Brazil, which is still struggling to contain inflation amid political pressures for large deficit finance – that argument could be compelling.
There are two problems with this argument.
A second argument attributes the difference to income taxes, which, in fact, have increased significantly in Europe since the 1970's, while in the US income taxes fell from the early 1980's onward.
For starters, there is the convergence argument.
Piketty’s argument is detailed and complicated.
Now, even in thumbnail form, this is a complicated argument.
But the depiction of ideas as being somehow “un-American” has always been an epithet, not an argument.
To be sure, everyone disagrees with 10-20% of Piketty’s argument, and everyone is unsure about perhaps another 10-20%.
In other words, there is majority agreement that each piece of the book is roughly correct, which means that there is near-consensus that the overall argument of the book is, broadly, right.
A handful of metal prices cannot settle a sprawling Malthus vs. Cornucopia argument, just as a single data point for unemployment cannot be the final word in the dispute between Cowen and Caplan.
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