Word: brouhaha
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...didn't want a whole brouhaha," he said. "I have no ill will toward Professor Lee...and the utmost respect for Dr. Vogel...
During the budget brouhaha, Penn and Schoen became convinced that Clinton and his Administration were too downbeat about the economy. Thanks in part to Clinton's hard-won deficit-reduction package of 1993, interest rates were low and the economy was picking up. But Labor Secretary Robert Reich seemed permanently pessimistic. Ickes told the Boston Globe that the country was going through a period similar to the Great Depression. Penn became alarmed when, during a late-night interview on Air Force One, the President told reporters that he was "trying to get people out of their funk." The Clintonites, Penn...
...would have thought there was brouhaha enough over reports earlier this year that Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, spent nights at the home of lobbyist Ann Eppard. Or that Eppard, a former top staff member for Shuster, still heads up the Pennsylvania Congressman's fund raising. Now there is a new flap. It seems Eppard worked with a lobbyist who represents Carnival Cruise Lines and its trade group to get Shuster's support for a "technical amendment" to the Coast Guard reauthorization bill. Tacked on at the last minute by a member of Shuster...
Last Wednesday, Parker started out with the same attitude as Klein, trivializing the brouhaha over Anonymous as the equivalent of "Who Shot J.R." and counseling critics to "get a life." But by Friday, after a slew of negative comments from other journalists, culminating in a blistering New York Times editorial that called Klein's actions "corrupt," the mood changed. Klein, cocky during his press conference, became more subdued as he suffered the contempt of his colleagues. "The public looks at us as people who make judgments about character,'' said nbc News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert. "When they...
During Lewis' fledgling but already immensely unpopular tenure, he has supported randomization of the housing lottery, moved to enforce alcohol policies more firmly and helped stir the current public service brouhaha. All these issues have an immediate impact upon student life, affecting undergraduates more directly and profoundly than the tenure cases or administrative structural decisions tackled by Lewis' bosses...