Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JOHN FEDDERS keeps reminding you just how much the country cares about the rights of women. Fedders, the former enforcement director of the Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned two years ago after his divorce blew into a public furor when he confessed to beating his wife repeatedly during their 18-year marriage. But before the "mainstream" could dismiss John Fedders as an aberration, the Maryland Courts stepped in. Late last month, the state rewarded him for his actions--and dampened whatever satisfaction Americans take as members of a society that has progressed in the area of equal rights...
...Senate debate comes amid continued furor following a recent Archdiocese of Boston editorial, which claimed that the bill protects homosexual activity and increases the risk of AIDS...
Quick, what's Greek for Gary Hart? Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 68, may need to know. For more than a month there have been parallels between the scandal that enveloped the former U.S. presidential candidate and the furor over the amorous antics of Greece's leader, who has been married for 36 years. The cause of the fuss: Dimitra Liani, a sultry stewardess in her early 30s and the Prime Minister's frequent companion...
Several of Zeckhauser's successes over the past nine years have been won at the expense of HRE's tenants. Two years ago the company tried to remove 60 apartments in the Craigie Arms apartment building from the rent control lists, sparking furor in the community. It continues to take rent-controlled apartments off of the rolls by selling them to small landlords who can legally evict tenants. In addition, tenant activists charge that HRE skirted the law in cases like those of rent-controlled buildings at 8-10 Mt. Auburn St. and 1306 Mass...
...film's success is Barbara Sukowa, who plays the radical politician with a proper mixture of courage, furor and angst. Sukowa won the best actress award at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film...