Word: furor
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...votes against this ban on fast food lawsuits, American consumers should remember who stood up for their rights to redress corporate wrongs. In an age where companies have defaulted on morality and responsibility to the detriment of ordinary Americans, the ability to hold these companies accountable is imperative. A furor over lower front waists and larger dress sizes shouldn’t obscure the larger goal: promoting corporate responsibility...
...Bush administration is engaging in its favorite St. Patrick’s Day tradition: incurring the ire of the Arab lands. Last March it was the invasion of Iraq – not altogether well-received in the Arab world. This year the administration has created a fresh furor in the region with its “Greater Middle East Initiative” (GME): a plan to bring democracy and enterprise to every country from Morocco to Afghanistan. Or as a headline in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat glowingly described it, a “U.S. Working Paper...
...advisers call foreign policy his passion and sound almost nervous when they say it. The last President who let his commitment to foreign affairs divert his attention from domestic concerns found himself ousted by an Arkansas Governor who knew it was the economy, stupid. But as last week's furor over Bush's use of images from 9/11 reminded us, this election will probably be unlike any other in a long time. The stakes are so high, the emotions so raw, that it is possible to imagine a sustained and substantive argument over the U.S.'s role and rights...
British researchers caused a furor in 1998 when they published a controversial report suggesting a link between the growing number of autism cases and the standard childhood vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). Although other physicians criticized the authors for jumping to conclusions, many worried parents stopped immunizing their children. Now 10 of the 13 original authors have decided to retract the paper, acknowledging that their data were not strong enough to support their incendiary conclusion...
...emotional response stirred by Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ has historical precedent. Witness the furor from Christian groups over Martin Scorsese's fictionalized version of the life of JESUS, The Last Temptation of Christ, the subject of a 1988 TIME cover...