Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these victims of the radio right have one thing in common, it's that they can talk up a storm. Now that all these victims but the President are at liberty, perhaps they could get behind the microphones and stir up a true debate between the right and the center-left. Or at least one hell of a shouting match. "This is Mario Cuomo, here to mix it up with the violent majority. Let's go to the phones...
Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, you will recall, are the very rich television producers (Designing Women, Evening Shade) who caused a stir during the early days of the Clinton Administration on account of their close friendship with the President and his wife and their constant presence at the White House. Washington has changed considerably since then: the Thomasons have been swept out of town (or at least out of sight) and the Republicans have swept in. All of which may have sharpened the Thomasons' sense of outrage but not their satirical skills...
...proposals for addressing them are counterproductive. We live in an academic society where gender has become one of the most problematic topics in any level of discussion. From not knowing whether to use the non-specific pronoun "he" in a paper to not knowing what innocuous sentence may stir indignation in the mind of a fellow "co-ed," gender questions have become a mystifying mine field for many male students...
...survey by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that Freshman Union patrons who ate the vegetable stir-fry at Sunday's dinner last week or who had salad on that Monday or Tuesday were far more likely to become ill than those who did not. The survey asked questions of 300 sufferers and non-sufferers of the disease...
According to a University statement released yesterday, the same vendor supplied vegetables for the salad bar and for the stir-fry. Harvard declined to identify the vendor...