Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Frankfurter's death in 1965, his reputation as a combative and principled jurist has endured. And so have reservations about his penchant for exerting policy influence in questionable ways. The latest fuss concerns his actions in the historic 1954 school-integration case Brown v. Board of Education. Philip Elman, 69, a former Frankfurter law clerk who served as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, says that while Brown was in progress Frankfurter regularly shared with him the confidential views of fellow Justices, which Elman later used when preparing Government briefs in the case...
...fuss over Fujitsu's marriage proposal was colored by wider U.S.-Japanese trade concerns. Schlumberger, the French oil-services conglomerate that bought Fairchild in 1979, had spent $1.5 billion to prop up its subsidiary (estimated 1986 sales: $500 million). No national-security alarms were sounded over Schlumberger's control of the semiconductor firm, which, among other things, provides components for U.S. supercomputers and ballistic-missile systems...
...gather, from yesterday's Crimson editorial that a fuss is being made about the tenure process. The people fussing are divided into two camps: those that want direct student involvement in the tenure process, and those who don't. Those who side with student involvement want to make "teaching ability" a more weighty consideration in tenure decisions. Those who side against student involvement don't think students are capable of contributing to an intelligent tenure decision...
...this fuss probably would never have happened at Harvard, where most students can only find love in the dictionary. But now we're stuck with...
...source of all the fuss was a Jan. 4 Roberts program. Surrounded by white-coated students, the evangelist launched into an appeal for money so that graduates of the medical school of Oral Roberts University, his 22-year- old institution in Tulsa, can serve in overseas missions. Viewers were urged to send at least $100 apiece during the next three months to help reach a goal of $4.5 million. Then Roberts dropped a bombshell. If donations fell short, said the 68-year-old preacher, God would strike him down. "I'm asking you to help extend my life," he said...