His crucial passage points out that diversity and variety are good – the curry-house argument – but they come with a price tag: weakened social cohesion, which makes voters less willing to support generous welfare payments.
The White House first used the phrase in explaining how it chose — after serious in-house arguments about the relative strategic insignificance to America of the stakes involved — to provide air support to the Libyan rebellion against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
(One can imagine the in-house arguments between the hard-line antidiscriminationists and the lawyers saying, yeah, but suppose we win the fight and a 65-year-old pilot crashes a 747).
Base-dwellers display the same behaviors people do elsewhere when they have time to kill: vodka-drinking contests worthy of frat houses, arguments over the music selection that inevitably turn into arm-wrestling contests.
Also, he said, alluding to the hiring of Mr. Marwell by the developer, "utilizing the affordable-housing argument is an attempt to panic the town into an approval to avoid future Berenson litigation".
"I lived in a house where argument was sport.
"The housing-dependency argument is a bit misguided," says Tim Bond, of Barclays Capital.
The politics of group living make it nearly impossible to impose a regular bathroom cleaning regimen, much less make sense of whose turn it is to buy a can of Clorox and a new sponge, and if your place happens to be a punk house, the argument will quickly turn to the environmental and moral implications of using Clorox in the first place.
That contradicts both Turnbull's "house prices smashed" argument and Labor's housing affordability claims.
I ask ministers to spare the house those arguments about decrypting computers.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A tide of anger has been swelling here since May after the new University of Missouri president, Timothy M. Wolfe, disclosed plans to close the university's publishing house, stoking arguments over the institution's priorities and fueling an escalating national debate over the necessity of university presses and their future in the digital world.
