Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flip side of the middle-class exodus that has many liberal scholars in an uproar. Economist Barry Bluestone of the University of Massachusetts believes the shift in the U.S. economy from unionized, factory work to service-industry professions has brought a substantial loss of jobs with middle-class pay. The blue-collar jobs tended to be unionized, goes the argument, while the new service industries typically offer no such wage and , job protection. Says Michael Boskin, a professor of economics at Stanford: "Some sectors of the middle class that had implicit security in their jobs have been rudely awakened...
...maybe we don't talk about it, and in fact, maybe most people at Harvard don't perceive that a problem exists--"No, not at Harvard"--but as both the remarks of my friend--whose attitude is sadly not at all that atypical--and the uproar a Women's Studies proposal has generated demonstrate, we are living in a community of dangerous subliminal bias. This conclusion, then, is my motivation for supporting a women's studies concentration. Contrary to what Mansfield has implied, I believe that there does exist a separate discipline encompassing the history, psychology, literature, etc. of women...
...full-scale diplomatic crisis immediately ensued. The Chinese and North Koreans were indignant: the South Koreans postponed a joint foreign ministers' meeting, and the South Korean press even suggested that Nakasone's upcoming visit to Seoul be canceled. In the wake of the uproar, the Prime Minister found a new, less outspoken Education Minister...
Nearly lost in the short-lived uproar over the French findings was Chermann's belief that the insects may offer valuable clues to a central riddle. The AIDS virus does not appear to reproduce in insects, he said; if scientists could find out why, they could perhaps develop an AIDS treatment. Such a solution is a long way off, though, and the prognosis for AIDS victims remains grim. Their comforts must be derived chiefly from the effort to live as normally as possible in the face of a ticking clock -- an exhausting enough business without prejudice or the threat...
...uproar caused by blatant voting irregularities in Mexico's largest state, Chihuahua, reached all the way to the Rio Grande last week. A crowd of 5,000 Mexicans staged a 24-hr. protest on the Bridge of the Americas, the heavily traveled border crossing that separates Chihuahua's main city, Ciudad Juarez, from El Paso. They demanded that the official results of the July 6 elections for governor, state legislature and mayoral seats be nullified. The demonstration caused long delays for the estimated 600 semitrailers that cross the bridge daily...