Word: uproarous
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...should I interpret this blaring silence in contrast to the uproar the Crimson usually seems to generate...
...movie nears its debut this weekend, the uproar has settled into a generally respectful buzz. Shilts' prodigiously researched 600-page book has been boiled down to a fact-filled, dramatically coherent, occasionally moving 2 hours and 20 minutes. At a time when most made-for-TV movies have gone tabloid crazy, here is a rare one that tackles a big subject, raises the right issues, fights the good fight. That is both its strength and its weakness...
Norway knew it was asking for trouble by going after whales for profit, but that didn't make the ensuing uproar any easier to take. Letters of protest have poured into Norway's embassy in Washington. Environmental groups have called on consumers to boycott the country's exports and on travelers to stay away from Norway, especially during next year's Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. German and British companies have canceled several million dollars' worth of contracts for Norwegian food. And the U.S. Commerce Department will decide within a week or two whether Norway's actions make it potentially subject...
Greenspan expressed disappointment at the enthusiastic reaction Powell received. "Some of it may have been in response to us," said Greenspan, who said he thought many graduating students wanted a smoothly-running Commencement. "I think some of it was anti-gay cheering. I was a little saddened by the uproar...
...officials and receives payment from news organizations for the same service. Accusing the longtime staffers of "gross mismanagement," the Administration insisted its action was not a response to complaints by Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, an intimate of the Clintons who has friends in the charter-airplane business. Facing an uproar when a cousin of the President was named to head an interim operation, while an Arkansas travel agency -- whose owner contributed to the Clinton campaign -- was chosen to handle travel arrangements, the White House relented and temporarily put the operation in the hands of the American Express travel office...