Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supreme irony is that the Corvair in production at the time of the furor (1965 and later) was considered by many mechanical engineers as well as enthusiasts to be the best-handling American sedan available. It is bad enough to live with this know-it-all but to have you glorify him is absolutely nauseating. If he is really serious about safety, why doesn't he work on the worst, most critical, problem-the drinking driver...
Coolness to Israel. What started the furor was the disclosure of an eleven-point U.S. plan for peace between Israel and Jordan. The proposals were worked up for submission to the Big Four-the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain and France-in the wake of the suspension of talks on the Middle East between Washington and Moscow. Though Rogers and several other State Department officials spent 2½ hours in Washington conferring with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban only 30 hours before the plan was submitted to the other members of the Big Four, they made no mention of what...
Despite the furor it has raised, the Philadelphia Plan has really had little impact so far. The first real test of the plan's effectiveness will come next spring after contracts are awarded on three federal projects around Philadelphia, where the Labor Department is aiming at 1,000 more construction jobs for blacks within four years. The department hopes to expand the plan soon to Pittsburgh, Boston, Seattle and Chicago...