Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treaty--that profered recently by the Contadora group of Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venzuela. Rather than budge the Nicaraguan junta, Reagan's policies have succeeded only in winning sympathy for the Sandinistas, no easy trick given the regime's lengthening track-record of repression and economic failure. The current furor over the publication of a CIA manual for political terrorism, assassination, and psychological terror only underscores the moral turpitude of the Reagan Administration, and takes the pressure of the Sandanistas to behave...
...beyond the FBI's New York office, where top officials showed little enthusiasm for pursuing leads on Democratic corruption at a time when a Democratic Administration held power in Washington. Lee Laster, who was in charge of the office, and Kenneth Walton, his deputy, provoked a furor among their subordinates by insisting that Orlando was too tainted to be used as an informant and, further, that Orlando should be prosecuted...
...government contends that all the evangelical furor is unnecessary, even irresponsible. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Devita, one of three government lawyers who prosecuted the Moon case, says that "the public statements of religious persecution are false. It was a tax case." Devita points out that when Judge Goettel denied Moon's motion to reduce his sentence on July 18, two days before Moon surrendered to Federal officials, Goettel said that "Moon totally misstated what was involved in the prosecution." (For instance, someone in the Moon organization manufactured documents purporting to show where the money in question came from--which lead...
While Republican politicians generally ducked the furor, even some conservative columnists assailed Reagan. George Will wrote, "The President's laconic, complacent comparison to home improvements misses a few points: the Commander in Chief has more leverage over his forces than the rest of us have over carpenters. And if carpenters are dilatory, the kitchen is inconvenient; if the Commander in Chiefs employees are dilatory, people die." The New York Times's William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, called Reagan's remarks on the bombings "even more pusillanimous than Jimmy Carter's protracted hand-wringing...
Since then, Yves has been the looming figure perpetually getting in the way of Karl's owned and operated spotlight. Although he insists that Saint Laurent is "the high-fashion designer I prefer to all the other ones," Lagerfeld created a furor last spring with an interview in the Paris-based monthly Actuel in which he had some saucy things to say about his fellow designer. Certainly the reflections (which Lagerfeld claims were not intended for publication) were not out of character for a man who says, "I respect nothing, no one, including myself. Respect is not a very...