Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like other Washington organizations, the independent National Academy of Sciences often makes a big fuss when one of its panels of experts issues an important report. The N.A.S. president attaches a letter praising the panel's work, and the press is summoned to the academy's auditorium to meet some of the experts and film them for the evening newscasts. That is not the way things went at the N.A.S. last month, however. When the Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior turned in its study of marijuana laws, the N.A.S. president flatly disavowed its recommendations...
...settlement, but an unforeseen housing shortage has temporarily prevented HRE from offering more units HRE-president Sally Zeckhauser and Tenant Relations Director Lorraine Wade refused to comment yesterday on the tenants complaints "The University position on this particular situation is to see [the relocation] implemented with a minimum of fuss," the Universityrepresentative said...
...week, citywide search for the statue. Finally, Cornelius Vermeule, curator of classical art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, pieces together the available clues and concludes that the lost relic is in a seldom-trod corner in the museum's basement. The subject of the fuss, a 92-in. bronze statue titled Young Diana, is a rendering of a somewhat androgynous-looking nymph. Vermeule's professional opinion: "There is indeed a strong resemblance-her profile, the contours of her face, and her eyes." The votes as to the statue's authenticity roll in. There are those...
...fuss about the budget farce [April 26]? Congress has no legal obligation to pay attention to the budget it adopts. This is why we have a $1 trillion national debt that will waste nearly $100 billion this year just to pay the interest...
...lashing out at Moyers' one-sided presentation, however, the Administration might have shot itself in the foot. The show captured only a 17% share of the audience throughout the country. By making a fuss, the White House called attention not only to the documentary but to its own worrisome record on social issues...