Robert M. Ball, who worked at the Social Security Administration for three decades and was commissioner from 1962 to 1973, said, "Arguments for radical changes in our approach to Social Security are weakened by today's report".
Bob Benedetti, a flammable liquids engineer at the National Fire Protection Association, said arguments could be made for and against the clips.
He said the argument for keeping Mr. Bloomberg in office "is pretty compelling".
Martin Horwood, the MP for Cheltenham, said the argument for lowering the cost of going to university marked a clear difference between the Liberal Democrats and the Tories.
Ed Osann, a natural resources consultant who lobbied almost a decade ago for the conservation legislation, said: "The argument for water efficiency is pretty clear.
In her response, Dr. Spence said the argument for a different set of stars was "unconvincing" and the proposed earlier date for the pyramid construction "cannot be accommodated by the archaeological data".
Soros said the argument for Britain remaining part of the EU could be summed up in one word – jobs – as he outlined his concerns that Europe could be pulled apart by decades of slow growth and Japanese-style deflation.
The legal director of campaigning organisation Liberty, James Welch, said: "The argument for stop and search without suspicion has been lost time and again – in our communities, courtrooms and classrooms.
Despite the strong gains in foreign markets, Mr. Brown said the argument for moving money out of the United States was not particularly persuasive because "in terms of global growth, the U.S. continues to be the engine".
But, she said, the argument for continued arts funding must be made primarily on economic grounds so that it "will get traction, not in the press, but with my colleagues – and with the country at large".
