Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rigorous standards of individual excellence, and more and more according to the diverse backgrounds and experiences they can import into the student body. In other facets of the university as well, variety is prevailing over quality. Witness the accelerating proliferation of concentrations, special concentrations and sub-concentrations, and the clamor for even more, such as ethnic studies...
...experience worthwhile is the intern...Culture." Apparently, flocking from all over the country, the 200 interns in the program are anxious to mix and mingle with fellow aspiring politicians and often stretch their workdays into long nights of play, usually at a trendy area pub. On weekends, they clamor into tour buses to see the monuments and museums. Cliques form. You're either...
...problem was that the crucial and defining fact that Roosevelt conducted his presidency from a wheelchair became a forgotten footnote to the White House proceedings and, indeed, to the whole memorial idea. In the warm glow of the White House it was easy to ignore the growing clamor at the gates about a memorial that is taking $42 million in tax money and has no depiction of Franklin Roosevelt in a wheelchair. (Or, for that matter, of Eleanor's fur stole, now considered too controversial...
...blame for this situation? Does the admissions staff have a penchant for admitting wierd people? With the overwhelming number of talented students who clamor for admission, perhaps only the misfits stand out. Or maybe Harvard's demanding academic environment brings out the worst qualities in its students. Kaczynski's frustration with a math problem set may have led him to vent his frustration on academics from coast to coast. Or perhaps scheduling final exams before Christmas would prevent Harvard from being responsible for nuturing more accused murderers...
...Telecommunications Act, which will require new TV sets to have the V chip, a device that enables parents to block out objectionable shows. Though network executives have long opposed government efforts to meddle in programming, claiming it would violate their First Amendment rights, they bowed to the growing clamor for giving parents more control over what their kids are watching...