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There was an uproar in Mexico over the appointment of John Dimitri Negroponte as U.S. Ambassador. What is it that Mexicans don't like about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with JORGE G. CASTANEDA: Bordering On Friends: | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...role in that Shakespearean drama caused something of an uproar at CBS, when, shortly after leaving Nixon in 1978, she was given a reporter's job by Washington bureau chief William Small. Several correspondents, including Rather, openly expressed opposition to her hiring. "Conversations would stop as I entered the room," she recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Star Power: Diane Sawyer | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Kahn's decision prompted series writer Rick Veitch to resign in protest from DC, a subsidiary of Warner Communications. He says, "I expected the same creative freedom that goes with writing a novel." The series' 50,000 fans are in an uproar. Says Stephen Kelleher, manager of Big Apple Comics in New York ; City: "Swamp Thing was only meeting Jesus. It's not like they were going to sing show tunes or perform high jinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMIC BOOKS: Swamp Thing's Quagmire | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...January-February issue of the Harvard Business Review creates an uproar as business and government leaders react to an article that claims that women are more costly to employ than men, lauching a debate about the corporate "mommy track...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Choices, Changes, and Controversy | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...words could equally apply to the hordes of developers who in recent times have swept over London. Their relentless building has gone largely unopposed, even when it has demolished rich portions of the city's heritage. But for the past few weeks all of London has been in an uproar over the scheduled destruction of two of the city's recently discovered archaeological treasures: the ruins of a Roman bath complex that dates back 2,000 years and the underground remains of the Rose, the Elizabethan theater where Shakespeare may have premiered Titus Andronicus and Henry VI and even trod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: To Build or Not to Build | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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