Word: furore
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...Chile had undermined Pinochet's efforts to obtain desperately needed aid. In the past few weeks, however, a group of American banks that includes First National City, Bank of America, Morgan Guaranty and Chemical Bank, had put together a $70 million renewable credit for Chile. But with the furor over the apparently forged death lists growing stronger every day, what Pinochet hoped might be the beginning of a stream of foreign loans could quickly...
...furor continues, the White House is trying to decide how to reform the CIA without ruining it. Essentially, the President and his close advisers believe that the agency should be maintained in its present general form and have the capability to mount covert operations. The Administration is not likely to accept the advice of former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and others who argue that the CIA should be split into two separate units: one for intelligence gathering and one for covert operations. White House officials believe that this could be inefficient, since the two functions often involve the same agents...
...banishment caused a furor in the Yard and got the wheels rolling in the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life in an attempt to come up with quick alternatives to the housing crisis...
...their ability to rear a child from another culture. After the home-study, it may take a year or longer before the parents are matched with a child and the adoption process is completed. Many of the people involved in the adoption of foreign children fee, that in the furor over the orphan airlift, many critics completely overlooked the amount of time, thinking and preparation that goes into adoption, and focused instead on the would-be parents who rushed to adoption agencies at the time. "There was a lot of emotionalism prompted by the Vietnam crisis," Darby acknowledges. "Most...
...furor would make an episode in it self. Undoubtedly, Southwold Solicitor Sir Geoffrey would summon a conclave to cope with the scandal. Richard might well consider putting the screws on the outraged Dowager Lady Southwold to increase his allowance in exchange for suppressing his earlier diaries. Richard's middle-class daughter-in-law Hazel would surely stick up for the servants' right to publish, and James would profit from the occasion by borrowing ten ners from a suddenly flush Hudson. As for Mrs. Bridges, it is obvious that the good woman's recipe book would be come...