Word: stirs
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...difference with a modest tariff, but both the union and the manufacturers insist that a half-measure won't suffice. One sign that Bush takes the issue seriously: He added it to Vice President Dick Cheney's portfolio. The steelworkers will hold a rally this week in Washington to stir public sympathy for their cause. If the President delivers, says Bill Klinefelter of the historically Democratic steelworkers union, "The union will certainly give credit where credit is due." Translation: tariffs now will mean votes later...
...Lovell House residents Jamal King ’05 and Silas P. Silas ’05 have caused quite a stir here at Harvard, what with their kidnapping of the Dooster statue, crashing their car into the Harvard statue while hotboxing and delivering pot brownies to uptight Dean Cain. Asked for comment, Jamal indicated that he came to Harvard looking to “cultivate [his] herbals?...
Pedersen’s proposal caused quite a stir when she presented it to the Committee on Undergraduate Education late last month. Some Faculty objected that students would use the extra course not to broaden their knowledge but to take another course in their concentration...
...woman with the healthy glow on our cover caused quite a stir among you. Not all the comment she inspired was complimentary. "Good health is not about being pretty," declared a Californian. "It means being fit and empowered, qualities that stereotypically pretty women do not necessarily embody." The majority of readers, however, were enthusiastic fans. "If Helen of Troy was blessed with such a face," wrote a Floridian, "then I sympathize completely with the behavior of Paris." Allowed an Alabaman: "She may be the healthiest person I've ever seen." Office workers in Indiana asked, "We're racking our brains...
...retirement and financial security remain major concerns among voters. A Los Angeles Times poll this week revealed that an overwhelming majority of Americans would rather cancel tax cuts in the future than raid Social Security to pay for them. Democrats think that reciting dry budget forecasts won't stir up the voters, but framing the debate around the Enron scandal will. Republicans disagree, arguing the public still perceives Democrats as the big spenders and the GOP as the party of fiscal responsibility. "Enronization" won't have legs, GOP operatives assure me. "It's kind of a cute tactic," says...