Word: furor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion of commercials in the classroom raised a furor when it was introduced last year. It also inspired a shrewd countermove by Atlanta cable kingpin Ted Turner. Starting last September, Turner's Cable News Network began offering a classroom newscast of its own, without commercials. (Time Warner Inc. owns 18% of CNN's parent, Turner Broadcasting Co., and 50% of Whittle Communications.) The 15-minute show, CNN Newsroom, is telecast each morning at 3:45; schools with cable can tape it and play it back later in the day. Turner's nonprofit venture does not offer free equipment, but many...
...furor over Clark's decision, at least he has been honest. Clark has never beat around the bush about his feelings on public interest law, even if these sentiments did infuriate the student body. It was this rare honesty with the press that elicited the attacks for his apparently anti-public interest comments. Two weeks ago, he subjected himself to an hour of antagonistic questioning by students at a forum...
...than fivefold in the past 20 years, and now surpasses breast cancer as the leading cause of death. "I cannot understand how any self-respecting company could seek to exploit so deliberately a group of young women," said Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women. Despite the furor, RJR is going ahead with plans to test Dakota...
Jimmy the Greek. Al Campanis. Jackie Mason. Add the name of Andy Rooney to the roll call of media loose lips. The furor keeps escalating over Rooney's 90-day suspension from CBS for his comments about gays and his alleged remarks about blacks. Minority groups are grumbling about fairness, pundits are punditing about the First Amendment, and the network has received more than 4,000 calls, almost all of them urging Rooney's reinstatement...
Until last week the national furor over the idea of swapping weapons for hostages in defiance of a congressional ban on official gunrunning to the contras seemed to have faded to the vanishing point. But when federal Judge Harold Greene ordered that more than 30 excerpts from Reagan's Oval Office diary be turned over to his former National Security Adviser John Poindexter on the ground that they were relevant to his defense, the fuss flared anew, if perhaps only fleetingly...