Word: brouhaha
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...administration argue that the U.S. should abandon "strategic ambiguity" in favor of a more direct commitment to Taiwan, but this is not administration policy. And conservatives are falling in line behind White House efforts to tamp down any impression that Bush was announcing a new line. Still, the brouhaha is unfortunate for Bush, because in order to control the damage in Beijing, Washington's spin doctors are forced, essentially, to persuade the Chinese not to take too literally the words that come out of the President's mouth...
...problem for the Windsors is not this particular brouhaha but the cumulative effect of many. In 1984, 77% of British adults thought the country would be worse off without the monarchy, with 16% indifferent. Now 43% think it would be worse off, with 41% indifferent. From deference to indifference in one generation is a dangerous trend. And Prince William has not even had his first (public) girlfriend...
...saviors of the world, while Cuba appears in the film, according to some critics, as mere decoration in a sugary film of pure Hollywood style. With more dialogue than action, the film tends to send the spectator to sleep.” Looking back, the Elian Gonzalez brouhaha would have been a lot simpler if we had just traded Kevin for Elian. (Wouldn’t I make a great Attorney General...
...infernal voyage are rapidly extinguished. We taxi around for a bit, as if the plane needs more exercise. The depressed pilot says that Logan only has six gates for shuttles and that they are all occupied. A shuttle ahead of us waits for a gate as well. Risking a brouhaha, the pilot says that it could be another 15 to 30 minutes. The plane harmoniously sighs in unison and many break out cell phones to report the status of their misery to loved ones back home. We sit around until...
...recent brouhaha involved the dubious residency status of a candidate for a Miami-Dade school-board seat, who claimed to be living in a toolshed on a farm. "Sometimes you make sacrifices for public office," he testified, and was promptly heaved off the ballot...