Word: flak
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...political flak," says Gomes. "The faculty resisted initially because they thought they were making concessions to a student political movement; the students resisted initially because it wasn't what they had asked for, so we steered a course between those rocks...
...flak, Townsend will organize responses to UC-bashers like...
Berry, who has made sweeping changes in the menu and management style at HDS, is catching flak from union employees who are complaining of added responsibilities which force shorter breaks, skipped meals and fewer days...
...then. It blows $25,000 on stupid concerts every now and then. But basically it's an excuse to give college students a taste of what politics is like. It's an extracurricular activity that should not be taken too seriously. Which brings me back to the flak, and the UC's Andre Agassiesque obsession with its image...
...citing the award violated the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Newspaper spreads boasted that "167,000 applicants" had vied for the Baldrige when in fact only 97 had applied, and that the Commerce Department had praised Cadillac's engine, an assertion questioned by Commerce itself. GM also caught flak for several overly flattering paraphrases of a government handout accompanying the award. The 167,000 applicants are now absent from GM's ads, but the corporation stands by everything else and is meeting with the state's attorneys to resolve the dispute...