Word: clamorous
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...million a year, the Kensington Palace apartments, a staff that is mostly her own, continuance of her status as a senior member of the royal family and a life free from Charles' glower. She may have insisted on Major's underscoring her right to be ^ Queen. With the clamor in Parliament, this may be an unrealistic notion. But Diana should not be counted out; her friends say the public has not seen the extent of her portfolio. More and more, she moves center-stage. Quips Holden: "If she manages to pull down the monarchy by mistake, she will be elected...
...might get the impression that, given voters' endorsement of universal care, the health debate is over. By and large, critics have disappeared or shut up, and proponents clamor for an acceleration of the process...
...Boston, a business in bad-off Dorchester might well move to worse-off Roxbury. What happens to Dorchester? Its city councillors clamor for it to be designated as an enterprise zone to stop the flight of businesses. Then South Boston, only marginally better than Dorchester, requests enterprise zone status as well in order to stem the flow of businesses out of that area. Pretty soon, all of Boston will be one big enterprise zone, free of strict regulations and with a tiny tax burden--in other words, a Republican heaven. Kemp is, at base, a Republican...
...avert our eyes and close our ears. It urges us to abandon the opaque tunnels down which we race so blindly, so deafly. It urges us against the coward's impulse to step lightly around the tough issues and only ask the polite questions, while stifling those which clamor in mute repression for voice. It urges us against our penchant to accept the soundbite without listening to the sound. It urges us to turn the pointing finger inward and the embracing arm outward. It urges us to be watchful, to be waitful, to listen and to learn, to give some...
That precedent causes some to clamor for the exhumation of John F. Kennedy. Most forensic scientists, however, agree that digging up Kennedy could shed light on only a few minor mysteries, such as the fate of the President's brain. It was removed during the autopsy, but it may have been buried later at Kennedy's grave site. Enough documentation exists from the autopsy report, X rays and photos to reconstruct the bullets' paths. Starrs, a longtime Kennedy admirer, balks at the thought of unearthing the slain President. Says he: "That's like exhuming my father...