Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opponents of the 25% proposal hope that the Administration, burned by the furor over the toxic-wastes ban, will move to rein in the combative EPA. Repeated samplings of public opinion, they argue, demonstrate that environmental protection is still a high priority nationwide. Indeed, pro-environment political-action committees are now working to promote candidates in more than 30 states. Some wary EPA watchers were encouraged by another step taken by the Administration last week. After resisting for a year, the White House authorized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to require that all chemical containers carry a label describing...
There is little way to stop the plant's operation now--a final appeal will be heard sometime this year but will almost certainly bring no change. So the coalition is understandably depleted. But even the slightest indication that health hazards are likely would unleash louder community furor than ever. The area would again be the courtroom, but the coalition would be fighting for lives, not maneuvering for delays. Suggestions of health dangers would also probably call to action the many national and international health groups with which NOMATEP has always been loosely connected, but which never lent it tangible...
...full costs of Medicaid and give the states more than 40 programs, including food stamps and welfare. But when Reagan's critics charged that the President had proposed the New Federalism to take attention away from his economic problems, White House aides urged Reagan to confront the spending furor directly. "It's better to face it than to try to run away from it," said...
...introduce a joint congressional resolution urging the U.S. to promote a negotiated settlement between the government and its leftist opponents. Three delegations of congressional Democrats flew to El Salvador over the weekend to take a closer look at local conditions. Even as the Congressmen began to arrive, another furor broke out, after a U.S. television crew filmed American military instructors in civilian clothes carrying M-16 rifles near an area of guerrilla activity. The military men were helping Salvadorans on a bridge-building exercise, but U.S. policy in El Salvador firmly states that military men must avoid combat zones...
...York City Criminal Court Judge Alan Friess. Last year Friess was censured for inviting a woman murder suspect, whom he had released without bail, to stay overnight in his home with him and his girlfriend. Now Friess has touched off another minor furor. Faced with a repeat offender in a pickpocket case, Friess proposed a novel way to set the sentence. He offered the defendant the chance to toss a coin: heads for 30 days, tails for 20. The coin came up tails. Friess's flip approach piqued the district attorney. But the judge would not budge...