Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate uproar over the potentially damaging allegations masked a broader and more complicated ongoing dispute between the University and government authorities over the proper approach to handling federal grants. The dispute--which is by no means peculiar to Harvard--may eventually prove harmful to the whole relationship between the University and the government, high-ranking financial officials fear...
Goldberg and other Washington lobbyists sympathize with Harvard's recent dilemma at the Med School. They said that in similar cases involving other universities, an initial uproar is made, but the final settlement is for less than 10 percent of the original charge...
...much needed Soviet gas when the U.S. refuses to revive a grain embargo that would hurt American farmers? Over the past five months, the U.S. has banned the sale of American energy technology to European companies that are supplying equipment for the pipeline. But that policy has caused an uproar in Europe, and the U.S. lifted those sanctions on Saturday. A new understanding on East-West trade announced by the President (see WORLD) will resolve some of these Europe-U.S. frictions, but the basic disagreement on the usefulness of sanctions will remain...
...advertisement last week in one of El Salvador's largest newspapers, El Diario de Hoy. Sponsored by the 702-member Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the broadside reflected a swelling tide of outrage in the conservative business community against U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton, 59. Reason for the uproar: in the toughest speech he has made in his 17 months in El Salvador, Hinton cautioned that the U.S. "could be forced to deny assistance to El Salvador" if the country did not substantially improve its respect for human rights...
...TIME Correspondent James Wilde: "We need a new departure. We must give more importance to the U.N. and take it more seriously, both in the positive and negative aspects. The U.N. is vital to American interests." The paradox is that as the U.S. strives to prove that point, the uproar is liable to grow louder along the banks of Manhattan's East River. -By George Russell. Reported by Louis Malasz/United Nations and Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington