Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact is, we're the only ones being penalized. Cabbies and hairdressers who receive tips aren't being forced to report their incomes. And when they were originally going to do something about the three-martini lunches, the big guys raised such a fuss that nothing happened...
Captain Charles B. Johnson's remark "a lot of fuss over not that much of a deal" [Feb. 14] is accurate only in that he was doing his job by stopping Israeli tanks from crossing his position. Encounters like this are an extreme detriment to U.S-Israeli relations...
Last week all 18 building inspectors were suspended and two promptly retired; the city's building-codes administrator resigned, and the public works director was put on "involuntary leave." And the fuss may not be over: the county prosecutor is considering bringing criminal charges...
...Captain Johnson. Arab-language radio stations were retelling the story of the American who stopped three Israeli tanks "singlehanded." Colonel Thomas Stokes, the Marine commander in Lebanon, said that Johnson would receive a commendation for his action. As for Johnson, he modestly called his sudden fame "a lot of fuss over not that much of a deal." On that point alone, the Israelis would agree...
...cause of that fuss was the disappearance of two projection mask aligners (price: $250,000 each) made by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. The automobile-size machines, called Micralign 200s by Perkin-Elmer, are used in the manufacture of microcircuitry for everything from digital watches to missile guidance systems. Designed ten years ago, the equipment has since been superseded by more advanced models. Nonetheless, the Commerce Department has it on a list of equipment banned for export to Iron Curtain countries. Commerce analysts estimate that 70% of computer microchips made in the Soviet Union are turned out on Western...