Word: furore
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...After Cosby's speech, a number of my friends and relatives, some of whom were in attendance some of whom heard about the furor afterwards, expressed dismay at the statements - but several were more horrified that he had gone public, not at the opinions themselves. Cosby's comments did not contain any new arguments. As far back as 1942, the writer Zora Neale Hurston lamented the attacks of those who would scapegoat the black underclass: "My people! My people! From the earliest rocking of my cradle days, I have heard this cry go up from Negro lips. It is forced...
President Bush is now in danger of the furor over the Abu Ghraib prison horrors engulfing U.S. strategy toward Iraq at the very moment he faces huge last-chance political and military decisions there...
...number has become something of a mantra for the jobless recovery--3.3 million U.S. jobs will move overseas by 2015. Forrester Research came up with the estimate in late 2002, kicking off the current furor over outsourcing, the movement of jobs out of the U.S. Now the consultancy has released its first revision of that landmark study, and the news is not comforting. Job losses, it concludes, will hit a lot sooner than expected. By the end of next year, Forrester believes, 830,000 jobs will have gone abroad, mainly to India. That's 242,000 more than...
American troops and civilians have been directly endangered by the growing furor over the abuse. Abu Ghraib, long a symbol of repression for Iraqis, has now provided further fuel for the resistance’s fire in Iraq. Reprisals are already being carried out: The horrific decapitation of U.S. civilian contractor Nicolas Berg may be a warning sign of what is to come...
...magazine, saying that Powell was weary of fighting ideological "utopians" in the Administration and being forced to do "damage control" and "apologizing around the world." Powell's foes, perhaps in retaliation, blamed him for being slow to decide to travel to the Middle East to help quell the furor over the abuse scandal. Says a senior Bush official of the open warfare: "It is not very conducive to a healthy working environment...