Word: uproarous
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...uproar is over the future of Italy's controversial abortion law passed in 1978. The measure allows women over 18 to have an abortion at state expense in the first 90 days of pregnancy. Some 200,000 legal operations now take place annually in specially designated, state-run hospitals. But because of intense church opposition, many of the approved clinics do not perform the operations. Health officials estimate that as many as 600,000 of Italy's abortions are still done illegally. The grim cost: some 2,000 to 5,000 deaths per year...
...expectation across the broad lawn up to the great white columns of Colonial's porch. The door swings open and you and your group (throughout Bicker, you move in a group of three or four--you are judged, accepted, and perhaps rejected collectively) are swept into the dazzling warm uproar inside. You feel the soft depth of the rug beneath your feet and can see a bright, glittering, well-groomed haze all around you. Up the grand stairway, lined with upperclassmen clapping and cheering, until you reach the top where beaming and blushing abashedly you sign your name and receive...
...hookers, junkies, dealers, theives, and killers--all of them either Black or Puerto Rican. And American audiences will not see victims of an inhumane racist capitalist system--they will see looters and murderers who should be, in the view of this film, punished. When the neighborhood is in an uproar over random arrests, Murphy tells us that the community leaders will demand justice. But what we see is a mob of hundreds of rioters, screaming and throwing garbage. There are three Black cops in the film: one is one of the rookies knocked off in the first scene; the second...
...current uproar over the hostage deal could indeed be short-lived. But the departure of the 52 Americans may have other enduring consequences by depriving the mullahs of their most effective device for rallying revolutionary support. As Professor Richard Bulliet of Columbia University's Middle East Institute points out, the hostage release also throws into embarrassing relief the fact that the clerical hard-liners simply "cannot run the government." Adds an Iranian politician: "The present government has no chance of solving any of the terrifying economic, social and administrative problems faced by Iran today. The I.R.P. put the most...
...there is anything we have attempted to do, it is to force the people who establish policy to make hard decisions on priorities. We are suggesting things typically not done because of short-term political perspectives. So, of course, parts of the recommendations are bound to yield political uproar...