Word: firestorm
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...seemingly ordinary dispute spiraled. In one notable consumer revolt in 2005, media pundit Jeff Jarvis used his popular blog BuzzMachine to chastise Dell founder Michael Dell on the quality of the company's laptop and customer service. A legion of other dissatisfied customers piled on. The resulting consumer firestorm damaged the brand name, writes Blackshaw: "A swarm of digital termites ended up eating away at the reputation Dell had spent countless millions of dollars to create...
...Since TIME first wrote last week of this "pact," as Sullivan called it, a media firestorm has hit this seaside town on Massachusetts' north shore. News outlets from as far away as Australia and Brazil have been quick to hone in on the more salacious details surrounding these young mothers-to-be. But at a press conference today, Gloucester mayor Carolyn Kirk emerged from a closed-door meeting with city, school and health officials to say that there had been no independent confirmation of any teen-pregnancy pact. She also said that the principal, who was not present...
...would have provided cable at little or no cost to the University, administrators stonewalled and then rejected his plan without offering a clear explanation, raising questions about transparency and their willingness to improve student life.The Crimsonreading.com and cable debacles were only preludes to the year’s true firestorm, which came in the struggle over the cancellation of the UC Party Fund.In early October, then-Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam sent shockwaves through the undergraduate community by imperiously canceling the UC Party Fund, which had until that point supplied $1,750 per weekend for parties open...
...Tyler remembers returning to an uneasy campus in the fall as a second-year law student. He says that his white classmates were at first “hostile” towards their efforts, and other black students were taken aback by the firestorm sparked by Vorenberg’s summer letter and its coverage in the national media...
Gianfranco Fini, the president of the Italian Parliament, is facing a firestorm of controversy after saying that the May 1 burning of Israeli flags in Turin by far-left protesters was "much more serious" than the savage beating of a 29-year-old that same day in Verona by a neo-Nazi gang. The victim of the beating, Nicola Tommasoli, died late Monday after several days in a coma. Five young fans of the Verona soccer team have been arrested for the murder...