Word: ruckuses
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...when you say that we?ve come a long way from ?Frankly my dear, I don?t give a damn? causing a big ruckus, that a lot of us miss that America, aren?t you causing the problem, too, with your own ranting at people...
...Ways and Means plan, though, differs dramatically from the Administration's in retaining some of Middle America's most hallowed tax breaks. One is the privilege of writing off mortgage interest on a second home. The Administration's proposal to limit that advantage stirred a ruckus not only from homeowners but from the building industry and mortgage lenders. Another break that Ways and Means restored is the deductibility of state and local taxes, which was stoutly defended by legislators from high-levy states. One congressional study estimated that the loss of deductibility would add some $1,600 to the average...
Rosen said that there has been no indication that college students were the cause of the ruckus...
...while playing host to Lien and Soong, Hu undoubtedly kept an eye on CNN and the BBC to see the kind of ruckus the visits are creating for Chen and the KMT at home. "Taiwan has always been divided over the issue of how to deal with China," says Joseph Wu, chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan's top policymaking body on mainland issues. "China knows this. In [inviting Lien to China], it creates internal problems." Professor Lee Si-kuen, a professor of political science at National Taiwan University (and a KMT member), calls Lien's trip "the wrong...
...remains a passionate, often politically incorrect, advocate for the black community. In 1996 he caused a ruckus with a speech in which he called for a separate African-American theater, castigated black playwrights and directors for participating in an "art that is conceived and designed to entertain white society" and decried the increasingly fashionable practice of "color-blind casting"--i.e., blacks playing traditionally white roles. The outcry was fierce; the drama critic Robert Brustein, in a blistering rebuttal in the New Republic, disparaged Wilson's plays and denounced his words as the "language of self-segregation...