Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is what Guinier wants implemented, why all the fuss? Because Guinier has chosen to apply her ideas to the sensitive problem of race. Guinier promotes cumulative voting as an alternative to racial gerrymandering in areas where racial-bloc voting (usually by whites) produces majority tyranny (usually over blacks). If Guinier had argued for cumulative voting as a better voting system as a way of improving the political representation of women, or even as a way of giving oppressed members of the gun-enthusiast and smoking minorities a greater political voice, Guinier would probably have been spared the degree...
...understand what the fuss was all about," longtime Older Dominion Coach Eldon "Enigma" Jasper said to me this morning. "A kid can shoot the rock and plow the field in the same afternoon, I've always said...
...house only accepted their co-championship status and T-shirts that go with them after protests and what he called "a big fuss...
...than 20 foreign spies last year, including one Russian who had caused major damage to national security. "If the CIA had discontinued its activities in Russia," Golushko's spokesman said last week, the agency "would have been closed down." The implication is that Moscow did not make a public fuss about its arrests and cannot understand why Washington is doing so with the Ames case. "This incident," says Yuri Kobaladze, press spokesman for the Foreign Intelligence Service, "does not concern relations between our two countries...
...night in which -- so they say -- the page of history turned for our stricken land, we were, my friends and I, at Asha's cafe. Asha -- doctor, pilot, race-car driver -- is now a cafe owner. As we stared at a miniature TV screen, not quite believing what a fuss the world was making over the latest great swindle, one of our companions seemed to be melting into ecstasy over everything he was hearing...