Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appropriations bills that fund the Government. (One includes a proposed pay raise for Congressmen that is unlikely to survive.) The House has passed eight and may approve four more before Christmas. The Senate has completed only three and is likely to pass only four more. Thus, despite all the fuss and expense, the 98th Congress may have to go through much of the same legislative maze all over again in January. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington
There's no place like home for the holidays ..." That certain time of year being at hand, this sentiment from Home for the Holidays will soon be crooning forth repetitiously from all the mellow music stations. More power to it. Only a sorehead would fuss about too much celebration of the idea of home during the festive winter season. For that matter, home deserves a good deal of hymning all the time. There is, as the wonderful old song Home, Sweet Home established once and for all, no place like it-and this no matter what sort of place...
Reaction to Stigler's remarks was mixed. "I think he was too flippant," said Republican Senator Charles Percy. "He misused the platform he was given." Interviewed on the campaign trail in Casper, Wyo., Reagan did not seem to understand what all the fuss was about. Said he blithely: "He wasn't talking about our program...
...seems strange--at least to one who put away her black cat costume about seven years ago--that there should be such a fuss this year over Halloween...
...Harvard's Core vision is perhaps the one whose logical and philosophical underpinnings are the least obvious to observers. Though the national press did, as Keller notes, focus massive attention on the event as an educational revolution, academics across the country still express confusion as to what exactly the fuss was about Many thought the proposed array of 90 courses as a "core" of basic knowledge was a bit idiosyncratic. Others went further and called it ludicrous. The vast majority of outside observers failed to see the distinction between the Core "revolution" and its sagging predecessor. General Education. And students...