Word: clamoring
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...decline of enzyme pre-soaks has put a damper on the manufacturers' profits. They are even more concerned about the rising clamor over phosphates, a basic detergent ingredient that loosens grime in hard water. Detergent phosphates flow into the nation's waterways, where they act as nutrients and cause excessive growth of algae. In a complex process called eutrophication, these algae ultimately pollute lakes and rivers. Soap-men contend that the major sources of phosphates in the waterways are not laundry products but sewage and runoffs from chemical fertilizer...
...Radcliffe Trustees and the Harvard Corporation. Only the Board of Overseers has yet to approve the measure, and it is expected it will do so at its March 8 meeting. Meanwhile, many Harvard men, often the very ones who were initially hostile to the whole coed invasion, now greedily clamor that their respective Houses be granted a token complement of women. And the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life is threatening to respond with an 8:1 total coed plan that would spread women through the dining halls like a thin pate...
...clamor and the clangor of the calls...
...fourth mission to the moon, NASA is keenly aware that the future of the manned space program may well be riding on the outcome of that shot. A disaster-or a near disaster like Apollo 13's aborted mission last April-could provoke a noisy clamor for cancellation of the three remaining Apollo flights. Said one space-agency official: "If anything goes wrong this time, you'll really hear the hounds baying at the moon -literally...
Once the spiral starts, it develops a self-accelerating momentum. Union members, dismayed by the extent to which inflation eats away their pay gains, clamor for ever fatter wage increases. Businessmen borrow with abandon to build bigger inventories and more factories than they need, figuring that everything will cost more tomorrow. When this "inflationary psychology" takes hold, only drastic action can break...