The "topic" a person tries to persuade someone "for" or "against" is called THIS.
What is an ISSUE?
100
This is the author's name.
What is Alan S. Blinder?
100
The number of pennies in circulation when the article was written.
What is 91 billion?
100
A coin the United States has abolished.
What is the half-penny?
100
If making coins from metal is called "minting" it's only natural the place coins are made is called THIS.
What is a MINT?
200
The "stand" someone takes on the topic their trying to persuade someone about is called THIS.
What is their POSITION?
200
The author's son's name.
What is William?
200
The value of 91 billion pennies expressed in dollars.
What is $910,000,000 (nine hundred, ten -- or ninety-one hundred -- million dollars)
200
Three coins Great Britain has abolished.
What are the farthing, the half-penny, and the old penny.
200
If placing a value on something is called "valuating," taking the value away would be called THIS.
What is DEVALUATING (the de- means "apart" or "away")
300
Evidence comes in these two varieties.
What are FACT and OPINION?
300
The author's POSITION on the ISSUE of keeping or abolishing the penny.
What is he is "all for abolishing the penny"?
300
Instead of a $39.99 item costing $40, the author predicts that it would be priced at THIS if the penny were abolished.
What is $39.95?
300
Who does the author think would still want pennies even if they were worth nothing.
What are hobbyists and investors?
300
A business deal on a trivial scale or a low-stakes poker game is called THIS.
What is PENNY-ANTE.
400
When you anticipate the other side's arguments and knock them down (the arguments, not the people on the other side) before they can present their argument is called THIS.
What is COUNTERARGUMENT?
400
The author's son's age when the story was written.
What is 10? (He was 8 two years before the story was written.)
400
The cost of making 15 billion pennies.
What is $90 million.
400
Pennies were made of THIS when the article was written.
What is copper?
400
This is one thing that can cause a rise in the price of goods.
What is INFLATION?
500
When you tell the person you've hopefully persuaded to do something, you've given them THIS.
What is a CALL TO ACTION?
500
If you can make a roll of pennies in 45 seconds and can keep all the pennies you roll, you would earn this much in an hour.
What is 40 dollars an hour?
500
If you waste 10 seconds a day trying to find pennies to pay for things, how many minutes have you wasted in a year (365 days).
What is about 61 minutes (60.83333)
500
What governmental organization would enact the policy the author proposes?
What is Congress?
500
The Greek suffix -ist means THIS.
What is "someone who does" or "someone who works with"?