Word: flak
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...subcommittee, one investigator insists about the flak the universities have received, "It's not damage that has not been deserved...
...interpretation could be totally wrongheaded, but it's what I honestly believe. And I have taken an incredible amount of flak for it. Nothing I've ever done has attracted as much hate mail as my testimony for 2 Live Crew...
...sharing counsel with Bok, Steiner has also shared some of his flak. Over the years, the general counsel has more than once been singled out by demonstrators as an opponent. Most notably, he is featured in the South African divestment chant, "Dan Steiner, get the word! This is not Johannesburg...
...press is catching flak from all sides. While many Americans charge that the media coverage has been too critical, a small but vocal minority argue that the press has passively accepted the Pentagon line and has given short shrift to views opposing the war. A caller on CBS's America Tonight contended that antiwar views are being censored by the media. "If you listen to the radio shows, you'll find people being cut off on a regular basis," he said...
Armed-forces recruiters are catching flak for paying schools to get scouting information about students. The City of Los Angeles board of education passed a measure last week that stops the district from selling the names and addresses of high school students to military recruiters. The board was responding to complaints from parents, who consider the practice an invasion of student privacy. Since 1971 the district has been selling the names of juniors and seniors for 3 cents apiece. Last year it made $8,081 from the list, which school officials say was used only to cover clerical costs...