Word: furore
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...Robert Smith, a quiet-spoken retired structural engineer, also sharply questioned banking group Abbey National's board. Abbey last year lost $1.6 billion, halved dividends but paid golden handshakes totaling some $9 million to five departing directors. "It's scandalous," Smith says. "It was a reward for failure." The furor is largely a British phenomenon. On the Continent, pay and compensation packages tend to be lower and not subject to the same public scrutiny. German companies don't even need to publish details of executive remuneration, although pressure is growing on firms to do so. In France, a law passed...
...even if we pretend for a moment that the military should have done more to protect Iraqi artifacts, the furor over the looting is quite disturbing in itself. Let’s be honest here. The outrage over lost artwork is based on the wicked premise that future generations will miss these artifacts much more than they’ll miss the thousands of people who died—or could have died—in this war. After all, there is only one Harp of Ur, but ordinary Iraqis and Americans are replaceable...
...days of missed work, lost wage reimbursement would be set at 66% and capped at $50,000, and only workers who get their shots within 120 days of when the feds publish rules implementing the legislation would be eligible. The thimerosal provision, though, has triggered a new layer of furor...
...points out, these hopes are widely shared by the Chinese-American student population, who made their feelings known loudly at the FleetCenter, cheering every time Yao touched the ball and shaking the arena the two times Yao scored. Race in athletics is always a touchy subject, and the recent furor over Title IX and affirmative action demonstrate that colleges are the staging arenas for pitched battles over diversity...
...Cizik parses the issue is instructive: the focus shouldn't be SUVs but overall fuel consumption. The problem with the furor over SUVs isn't that it's groundless--SUVs do pollute--but that it's carried out in a strange void, as though Americans don't live in the most sumptuously energy-guzzling society of all time. For at least the past two decades, North America's per-capita energy consumption has been about 4 1/2 times the world average, according to the U.S. Department of Energy...