Word: furor
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...debate has heated up since the 1982 failure of Oklahoma's Penn Square Bank and the subsequent near collapse of Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago. Litigants are asking at least $400 million from Peat Marwick for its alleged failure to predict the Penn Square debacle. Then came the 1985 furor over E.S.M., the Fort Lauderdale Government-securities firm, amid a scandal that involved massive fraud. E.S.M.'s auditor, Chicago-based Grant Thornton (formerly Alexander Grant), has reportedly since been slapped with some $1 billion in legal claims for allegedly failing to expose the malfeasance...
...that "could start a revolution" and "serve as blueprint for a new era of feminist activism." Those heated reactions were only a small part of a new controversy slowly beginning to churn in U.S. feminist circles. Its focus: a newly published 461-page study that examines why, despite the furor of the feminist revolution in the '60s and '70s, women in the U.S. labor force remain substantially poorer than their West European counterparts. The book's most startling claim: the feminist movement itself may be responsible for some of that discrepancy...
...phenomenon is now in political encyclopedias, and some shorthand is needed. However, Lexicographer William Safire uses periods and even spells out the full words when he explains various forms and subtleties in his book The New Language of Politics. He notes that SOB is "an appellation which creates a furor whenever the public learns that a President of the United States has used...
...hate to break it to you folks but some of us can't help being women or fat and do not appreciate being insulted. Do we still laugh at racist jokes? (Obviously not, considering the general furor over the Dartmouth Review's editorial on Black students, "It Ain't No Jive Bro.") Then why do we still laugh at humor that degrades and insults women? While the editors of the Lampoon may not have had malicious intentions, there are limits to humor. Kamala Shirin Lakhdir...
Three weeks ago Gillberg publicly charged el Sayed with lying about his credentials, and a national furor erupted. HE LIED read a banner headline in Expressen, a Stockholm tabloid. Afraid that his new notoriety would hurt Fermenta, el Sayed agreed to give up day-to-day management of the company. But he is hardly ruined: his 43% share of Fermenta's stock is still worth nearly $350 million...