Word: uproarous
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...words seemed calculated to provoke an uproar. Elderly people who are terminally ill "have a duty to die," declared Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, 48, at a meeting of the Colorado Health Lawyers Association last week in Denver. "Like leaves which fall off a tree forming the humus in which other plants can grow, we've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts, so that our kids can build a reasonable life...
...uproar is just what the Governor got. In Washington the American Life Lobby, an antiabortion, anti-euthanasia group, quickly called for Lamm's resignation. Florida's Representative Claude Pepper, 83, Congress's leading advocate for the aged, accused the Governor of "downgrading the elderly." Lamm was confronted by angry older citizens in Denver. "I used to think the world of you, but I hate you for what you said," declared Lilian Bono...
Most Administrations have been plagued by ethical breakdowns of varying seriousness. Harry Truman's military aide, General Harry Vaughan, accepted a freezer from a manufacturer and survived the uproar. Dwight Eisenhower fired his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, for giving Government favors to an industrialist and taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate...
Despite the AIDS uproar and other problems adjusting to their new life, most Haitian-Americans, citing greater political freedom and economic opportunities, say they will stay and even encourage relatives to join them...
...economy is going up, why do so many people feel so down about it? Why is the stock market sliding? Why is Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker warning of a "clear and present danger"? Why is Congress in an uproar over the President's economic policy? Why, after little more than a year of recovery, is the dread word recession even being occasionally heard from the President's economic advisers...