Word: brouhaha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stung by the snickers, Yeltsin later claimed that the brouhaha was an attempt by Gorbachev to "ruin my health and have me withdrawn from the realm of political struggle." Not so, retorted Bakatin, who called a press conference to brand Yeltsin a liar and, giving the knife a turn, charge that his story "does not hold water." Yeltsin may recover from his soaking, but he may also discover that a politician whose private life becomes the butt of jokes eventually does not have to worry about his public life. Just ask Gary Hart...
Despite the brouhaha, the Navy is going ahead with its plans to use the dolphins as guards. Thomas LaPuzza, a spokesman for the Naval Ocean Systems ) Center in San Diego, where the dolphins have been trained, refuses to comment on their mission, which is classified, but claims they are highly dependable. A thorough investigation by the federal Marine Mammal Commission cleared NOSC of charges that it had abused dolphins, and Democrat Norman Dicks, a Washington State Congressman who sits on the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, came away from a classified briefing on the project reassured that the animals "are more...
Some students and administrators have viewed the brouhaha over partial randomization as a mandate for an uncompromising answer--Let the Lottery be Randomed, or Let it be by Choice. There can be no fairness, critics say, unless we have all or nothing...
...cons. Said a laconic senior official: "The President understood why the Secretary came to that conclusion, and he supported it." Neither George Bush nor incoming Secretary of State James Baker, who will inherit the repercussions, was consulted. Bush advisers were happy to distance the President-elect from the brouhaha. Said a grateful aide: "They chose not to discuss this issue with...
...fight for RJR Nabisco, that seems to have happened in spectacular fashion. No matter how the battle turns out, the unseemly scramble for riches has, for the moment at least, given overreaching a bad name. In the end, the RJR brouhaha may turn out to be a useful testing of the limits: of greed, of debt, of dealmaking. The resulting outcry may prove an effective regulating device. "In its own way, the deal has been typically American, where nothing is in moderation, including the enormous selfishness of management," notes James Bere, chairman of Borg-Warner. "It's touched a nerve...