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Rosenberg says the Zone's turnaround began 12years ago amid furor over Puopolo's murder. Atthat time, the city started a serious clean upeffort...
...withdraw, leaving the East Germans with just five gymnasts and without the opportunity to drop the lowest of six scores. Still, for the East Germans, the bronze medal will always be tarnished. And, ironically, while the U.S. team would have been quickly forgotten had it won the bronze, the furor ensures that the 1988 U.S. gymnastics team, led by Brandy Johnson and Mills, will enter the annals of footnote memories...
Harvard has usually weighed in on the side of restraint toward closer relations with industry. Harvard's reluctance to be involved stems from a divisive controversy in 1980 when Harvard announced plans to invest in Professor Mark Ptashne's start-up biotechnology company. After furor erupted in the faculty and in the national press, President Bok switched course and decided to pull out of the deal...
Americans have never been able to respond to the misguided excesses of idealistic youth with a Gallic shrug. That is why the furor over Dan Quayle's Viet Nam record has become such a polarizing issue. Once again the nation is reminded of all the unresolved passions of the 1960s, a time of both angry and antic generational rebellion, when national leaders were reviled, patriotism was mocked, and drug taking exalted...
...furor has put chemical companies on the defensive as well. The Chavez hunger strike, accompanied by a boycott of California grapes and several supermarket chains, was partly inspired by an incident last year in which 75 farmworkers harvesting grapes sprayed with the insecticide Zolone came down with flulike symptoms. Under pressure from state agriculture officials, the chemical's manufacturer, Rhone-Poulenc, stopped selling the substance to grape growers. This year Rhone-Poulenc is carrying out a controversial test in which it paid 25 college students as much as $1,500 for one week to harvest a central California vineyard that...