Word: brouhaha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been shuttling so many free or upgraded passengers to Hawaii that "we didn't have enough seats to sell our paying customers," complained Suzanne Weiss, manager of the airline's Mileage Plus program. But the bonuses have also brought the airlines badly needed brand loyalty, and now the latest brouhaha is causing some of the chagrined carriers to reconsider their new restrictions. Until that happens, expect more fuming from unhappy customers...
WITH THE GREAT Amerika brouhaha exploding over our heads weeks before the show itself begins, the American media will once again don hairshirts and bewail either the excess or absence of the proper political sensitivities in our art forms. Both contentions are nonsense, as politics is almost always irrelevant to the American public's perception of the arts...
...demolished any chance that the mini- series, when it finally reaches the screen, will be judged on its own merits. Which is too bad, because the segments that have been completed (six hours so far) reveal a far more subtle, challenging and skillfully woven drama than the advance brouhaha would suggest. Its political implications aside, Amerika is the sort of project that network TV seldom tries and even more seldom achieves: a thought-provoking epic...
Smith Barney, another blue-chip investment firm, started its own brouhaha by suing Goodyear Tire and Rubber and Sir James Goldsmith. To stop a takeover bid by Goldsmith last month, Goodyear agreed to buy back the raider's 12.6 million shares of the company for $52.50 apiece, nearly a 22% premium over their market value of $43. Such buyouts at a premium not available to other shareholders are known as greenmail...
...ALAS, AS it is now being reviewed, the book was obviously published. What, then, is this brouhaha about...