Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack in the West for its trade practices. U.S. rivals have accused Fujitsu of a lowball pricing policy that keeps foreign firms out of the Japanese market. But last week a howl of protest went up in Japan when Fujitsu tried to carry out such pricing at home. The uproar occurred after Hiroshima's city government sought bids to design a new computer system. Seven firms offered to do the work at prices ranging from $2,000 to $201,000. But the winner was Fujitsu, which submitted a bid of less than a penny. The practice smacked of dumping...
...group of scientists are urging their colleagues to continue research on the process of cold fusion, even though the uproar last spring over the announced discovery of cold fusion has long since died down...
...Thomas M. Lauderdale '92, a member of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association,said, "I'm sure had it been publicized there would have been a complete uproar...
...uproar the decision has prompted should indicate the importance of this career office to the school population. More than 900 students, almost 60 percent of the student body, signed a petition last month asking for the restoration of the office. This reaction is all the more impressive when compared with the protests against tenure decisions in recent years, which mobilized only a small minority of the students...
...school. But the committee has not been given a mandate broader than to provide advice about "placement problems faced by graduates who would like to go into public-interest work." And Clark has yet to announce the members of this committee, more than four weeks after the uproar began...