Word: brouhaha
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...retrospect, it would have been a lot less trouble for someone to push Litvinenko under a bus than to feed him polonium. But it's likely his poisoners did not anticipate the brouhaha his death would cause. "I believe this was a botched operation," says Litvinenko's friend Alexander Goldfarb, who helped him escape from Russia and runs the Berezovsky-funded International Foundation for Civil Liberties in New York City. Without the intervention of Britain's nuclear-bomb lab, the cause of death would have remained shrouded. Boris Zhuykov, chief of the radioisotope laboratory at the Nuclear Research Institute...
...Setting aside the merits of the case - in a city of 15 million that has grown chaotically over the past few decades, stricter rules would be welcomed by harassed residents, although they would also hurt many small shop owners - the brouhaha clearly illustrates the central role of the Supreme Court in India's daily governance. And it's not confined to urban planning. Last month, the Court ruled that the country's 250 zoos could no longer breed animals, in response to a complaint by animal rights activists that the zoos are overcrowded and badly run. The Court also recently...
...phone interview this week from Princeton University, where Putnam is spending his sabbatical year as he finishes a book on religion in American life, the professor described the FT coverage and the resulting brouhaha as, “by two degrees of magnitude, the worst experience I have ever had with the media...
...aren’t there to cheer one of Harvard’s many championship entries, at least make sure to experience the river-area brouhaha. Hint: there may be live music and free samples of men’s cologne in your future...
...thing ABC (and other networks) can count on is a drawn-out brouhaha with the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part...