Word: furore
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Although there has been recent furor over recently-released Census Bureau statistics revealing that fewer than 25 percent of American households are nuclear families, what has been overshadowed is the more important fact that for the first time that the number of nuclear families has been exceeded by the number of Americans living alone. Harvard graduates are leaving Harvard to enter into an increasingly atomized and individualized world...
...statements, coming at a time when relations with Beijing are already tense because of the spy-plane incident and the just-announced sale?ignoring China's fierce protests?of a sprawling weapons package to Taiwan, caused a furor and renewed doubts about whether he has the touch to handle tricky international issues. Senator John Kerry, a leading Democrat, rushed to the Senate floor to complain that with his unscripted remarks, Bush "made a major policy change with absolutely no consultation with members of Congress or with our allies in the region." Others suspected that Bush confused plain speaking with sharp...
...statements--coming at a time when relations with Beijing are already tense because of the spy-plane episode and the just announced sale, over China's fierce protests, of a sprawling weapons package to Taiwan--caused a furor and renewed doubts about whether he has the touch to handle tricky international issues. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a leading Democrat, rushed to the Senate floor to complain that with his unscripted remarks, Bush "made a major policy change with absolutely no consultation with members of Congress or with our allies in the region." Others suspected that Bush confused plain speaking with...
...reasonably good news and no really bad news making the FBI look bad. Freeh has managed to convince the oversight committee on the Hill that once he found out about Hanssen he went after him vigorously. And other things have been going pretty well for the FBI. The Waco furor has pretty much died out. And as anyone who watches the financial markets will tell you: It?s always good to sell when your stock is high...
...Rushdie's tart observation about the British may hold true for Americans, too, if the furor over the latest revelations about Senator Bob Kerrey's Vietnam career is any measure. The forthcoming issue of the New York Times' Sunday magazine contains a painful confession by the decorated Navy SEAL that he was awarded a Bronze Star for leading an operation in February 1969 that has all the appearances of an atrocity against Vietnamese civilians. And the revelations, both through Kerrey's own shifting recollections and the even more damning account offered up by one of the men he commanded that...