Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin, meanwhile, may be seriously confounded by the entire is sue. A Soviet with considerable experience in American affairs said last week that the furor in the U.S. over the brigade puzzled Soviet leaders and was forcing them to question the "stability and sanity" of the U.S. Government. He asked, "Must we always accept a moratorium on rational dealings every four years while your political system goes crazy?" He left open the possibility that the Kremlin might be willing to make some small adjustments in the brigade's status, such as pulling out its light tanks or tinkering with...
...when all the furor over the formation of the 13th Cabinet department dies down, universities and other post-secondary institutions may find little changed in their relations with the federal government...
SALT II is seriously threatened by the furor over Soviet combat troops in Cuba. While senators, with next year's elections in mind, bicker over the 2-3000 Soviet combat troops in Cuba, SALT II recedes into the background of American foreign policy until President Carter takes what Congress considers corrective action...
...quiet diplomacy end the furor in the Senate...
...decade ago, Arthur Jensen discovered that fact the hard way. Jensen, then a little-known professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, created a furor and became a target of abuse by publishing an article in the Harvard Educational Review. Its claim: based on IQ tests, whites may be naturally smarter than blacks. Now, battered but unbowed, Jensen, 56, is returning to the fray. In a book to be published in December, he concludes that the IQ tests showing blacks scoring lower than whites are fair, accurate and not-as critics suppose-skewed by culture...