Word: furore
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...English clergyman, Canon Gareth Bennett. The suicide of the university don and historian ordinarily might have been a sad but briefly noted counterpoint to the Christmas season. Instead, the tragedy was catapulted into prominence by the fact that only four days earlier Bennett had become embroiled in a stupendous furor in the Church of England. The uproar, it seems clear, drove him to his death...
Though the files have always been open to designated officials of member countries, few requests were made, and information gleaned from the records could not be made public. Then, in 1986, just as the public furor was erupting over the Nazi past of former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who is now the President of Austria, a U.S. military archivist in Washington stumbled upon a master list of the names of all those for whom the U.N. possesses war- crime dossiers. As it turned out, Waldheim's name was on the list. Israel and American Jewish organizations accused...
...Harvard and real estate are always a volatile combination in Cambridge, and these plans raised even more furor than usual. In addition to the University's tax-free status. local politicians and activists constantly condemn the University's large share of the rental market, and its efforts to influence city government. The twin mortgage plans, City Councilors say, represent both...
...Kerr-McGee hoped its $1.38 million settlement with Silkwood's heirs had lifted the cloud of controversy from its operations, the furor that erupted last week dashed that hope. A spate of news reports revealed that Sequoyah has for more than a decade, with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval, been converting radioactive wastewater, called raffinate, into fertilizer and spraying it over company-owned fields. Hay grown on the fields has then been sold as feed to farmers and ranchers. Nearby residents charge that the fertilizer may be contaminating the Arkansas River and the water table near the Oklahoma-Arkansas border...
While James Baker was a better White House chief of staff than he is a Treasury Secretary, removing him would create a furor that neither the White House nor the financial markets need. "It's not people they have to get rid of," says former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, "but phobias and attitudes." Says Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist of the National Association of Manufacturers: "It would be a serious error to undermine Baker and Alan Greenspan...