Word: salvoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest salvo in an ongoing dispute between Harvard's security guards and the University, guards this week charge that they had been left out of community policing policies, burdened by overtime and left in limbo in contract negotiations...
...campus, James Watson, who had won a Nobel for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA and who was then running NIH's Human Genome Project, was outraged. This wasn't science, he insisted. "Virtually any monkey" could do that work, Watson fumed in the opening salvo of a battle that would rage for months--and which smolders to this day. To patent such abbreviated genetic material, said Watson, was "sheer lunacy" that would entangle genetic research in legal issues and slow it to a crawl. When the battle was over, the NIH had withdrawn the patent proposal...
...protests are the opening salvo in what promises to be a hardball campaign to force the Atlanta-based chain to stop selling products made from old-growth wood. The environmentalists threaten to follow up with newspaper ads, frequent pickets and civil disobedience at selected stores around the U.S.--unless the company agrees. "Home Depot is the biggest old-growth retailer in the world," says Randall Hayes, president of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a leader of the campaign. "Stopping them from selling old growth is the most important thing we can do to save these ancient cathedral forests and these...
...every designer is budging. Donna Karan, Anna Sui, Todd Oldham and Betsey Johnson say they will use only fake fur--although some will use shearling. Nor is PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) backing down. Its latest salvo is a video narrated by Chloe designer Stella McCartney (daughter of Paul and Linda) that contains grisly footage of a fox farm in Illinois. And even the most hardened fashion followers are mortified that some designers are using seal fur. The farmers are fighting back, and the Fur Commission of America launched an informative, if slightly defensive, website in July...
...releasing a version that Norton helped edit. Over at New Line, president Mike De Luca says he gave Kaye three chances to finish the film, spent an extra $1.5 million and endured meetings to which Kaye brought a Tibetan lama, a rabbi and a monk. Kaye's latest salvo: he wants the credits to say the film was directed by Humpty Dumpty...