Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That would seem to overstate the case. But enough damage has been done, insist some White House insiders, that the whiz kid will have to wave some new magic wands and make the furor fade away if he is to keep his job. Warned one official: "He's got about a week or maybe two before another decision will have to be made." Predicted another top aide: "He's going to bleed to death." Already there was talk in the White House about finding a replacement for Stockman. That, however, will not be easy. Shaky as those elusive...
...President's Office of Management and Budget, was on the cover. Had the President, asked Stahl, seen Stockman's critique of his economic program in the magazine? The President, taken aback, replied that he would ask Stockman what he had said. He did. And the furor that followed (yeeNATION)provided a closeup look at the symbiotic relationship between those unnamed government officials quoted every day on the front pages of newspapers and the reporters who cover them...
...traditional friends of landlords may actually be wishing that the conversion permits are denied: that action could create a cause celebre, and perhaps generate enough furor to keep the condo issue alive and perhaps overturn the entire ordinance...
...furor over the condo issue tended to overshadow a few other interesting trends in last week's voting, trends that could be ascertained by watching the ballots pile up one after another in the pigeonholes reserved for each candidate. The most interesting developments included...
During the furor over President Reagan's remarks, Leonid Zamyatin, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and an adviser to President and Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, met in Moscow with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof and TIME editors. At one point he speciously compared the presence of 85,000 Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan with the approximately 400 American military advisers in Egypt. But he mainly talked about the threat of nuclear war, angrily denying the validity of Reagan's comment that the Soviets believe a nuclear war would be "winnable. "Excerpts...