Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the furor over Ronald Pelton's betrayal, the OSS veterans gathered for a festive 25th annual banquet that provided a mite of moral support to Administration efforts to bolster the nation's intelligence apparatus. The banqueters warmly applauded when Reagan pledged to do just that, and nobody there had any trouble seconding the President's praise of CIA Director William Casey as "one of the heroes of America's fight for freedom." After all, Bill Casey was one of them; from the OSS office in London, he had helped direct the deployment of agents behind enemy lines. Still...
...Continentalist--was the official English delegate to the European Economic Community, Thatcher substantially reduced the country's contributions to the body. Sullivan also holds that Thatcher has moved decisively and permanently away from the sort of alliance that she had with Carrington: instead of reinstating him after the Falkands furor had cooled, she appointed Jeffrey Howe--a right-wing monetarist and close associate. Even among the wets, "Other people are calling the shots now," Sullivan says...
...Austria, as the country's presidential campaign winds to an end, even the furor over Conservative Candidate Kurt Waldheim's wartime Nazi links has been overshadowed by the question of atomic power. Socialist Kurt Streyer, who faces Waldheim in a runoff June 8, stresses his commitment in new posters that proclaim, NO SECOND CHERNOBYL. Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary-General, says he will use his diplomatic experience to get an international agreement on early and complete warning in case of atomic power accidents...
...debate has heated up since the 1982 failure of Oklahoma's Penn Square Bank and the subsequent near collapse of Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago. Litigants are asking at least $400 million from Peat Marwick for its alleged failure to predict the Penn Square debacle. Then came the 1985 furor over E.S.M., the Fort Lauderdale Government-securities firm, amid a scandal that involved massive fraud. E.S.M.'s auditor, Chicago-based Grant Thornton (formerly Alexander Grant), has reportedly since been slapped with some $1 billion in legal claims for allegedly failing to expose the malfeasance...
...critical comments about George Bush last week were triggered by his clumsy jitterbug over whether plummeting oil prices were endangering America's national security and financial health. The furor followed him throughout his ten-day visit to Saudi Arabia and three other Arab nations. Although his Administration supporters tried to quiet the political uproar, Bush's potential rivals for the 1988 nomination helped keep him on the hot seat. "I certainly think it's a mistake to go to the Saudis for help to firm up the price of oil," New York Congressman Jack Kemp told the Buffalo News. Asked...