Word: furor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Status quo proponents argue that uneven and often mediocre state regulation is no worse than consistently mediocre federal regulation would be, and that the current furor in Congress has snapped state regulators to attention. But where it's really frightening, and where any crisis, if we get one, is likely to erupt, is in reinsurance, an almost entirely unregulated field of undisclosed relationships crisscrossing national boundaries...
...furor surrounding Monday's killing of 19 Palestinians by Israeli police reverberated at Harvard yesterday...
...resulting furor, other abuses came to light: a midshipman had been bound and taped to a chair by classmates who thought he had lied; another had been forced to eat and drink until he vomited. Last week Rear Admiral Virgil Hill, the academy superintendent, announced stricter punishments, including dismissal, for physical "horseplay" involving unwilling participants...
...Veterans for Peace, Pfeiffer says his fellow members support recognition as a means to gain more on-site information about the effects of Agent Orange. "Open it up," says McClellan. "If we established relations with China, why not with Vietnam?" Former antiwar activist Anne Weills, who created a furor in 1968 when she went to Hanoi with a delegation that brought back three American prisoners, comes to the same conclusion from a different perspective. "We owe Vietnam a great debt," says the Berkeley attorney. "Americans have a role to play in the reconstruction of Vietnam because we had such...
...tribesmen lay in wait for three Roman legions advancing from the Rhine. Led by the chieftain Arminius, the Germans ambushed the veteran legionaries and massacred them. Rome never again tried to extend its empire far beyond the Rhine. The Roman historian Tacitus called Arminius' ferocious style of warfare the furor Teutonicus: given to drinking and fighting, the Germans, he wrote, were tough, hardened warriors "fanatically loyal to their leaders." Concluded Tacitus: "Rest is unwelcome to the race...