Word: uproarous
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Reagan appointees have been replaced, chiefly because of evidence that they were too receptive to the pleas of industries that may have been violating EPA regulations. The uproar over EPA prevented the Administration from pushing legislation through Congress that would have softened the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, which have technically expired but remain in effect until Congress acts either to kill or to renew them. Both are now likely to be strengthened...
...stuffed into the walls instead of insulation. A laborer falls from scaffolding because someone has, in exchange for a bottle of vodka, sold the wooden planks that he should be standing on and replaced them with rotting boards. A drunkard who is supposed to be demoted for causing an uproar in the factory holds on to his job because the boss fears he might walk out and leave the place understaffed...
...fact, Reagan and his advisers may need to think the strategy through themselves considerably more thoroughly than they have done to date. The decisions that are causing so much uproar have been taken largely in response to the pace of events, and they have led to major disagreements within the Government. The military and naval maneuvers, to take the most prominent example, have been justified by the Administration partly as a response to a reported increase in the number of Cuban military advisers and the quantity of arms from Soviet-bloc countries showing up in Nicaragua. But the significance?...
...since then, Shultz's authority has been oozing away. The Middle East plan fizzled. Then Clark, with hardly a word to the State Department, decided to fire Arms Control Director Eugene Rostow and replace him with Kenneth Adelman, a young hard-liner whose slender credentials caused an uproar on Capitol Hill. Two weeks ago, State Department Loyalist Philip Habib was replaced as Middle East envoy by Robert McFarlane, Clark's deputy at the National Security Council. Although he will report to Shultz, McFarlane, in a convoluted arrangement, will remain an assistant to Clark. In both cases, the White...
...lucrative economic ties with Taiwan. But Tanaka's popularity caught up with him in 1974, when a Japanese magazine exposed the fact that he had used a skein of dummy corporations and false tax statements to conceal his shadowy ways of making money. Amid the public uproar that ensued, Tanaka felt compelled to resign...