Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uproar overshadowed the issue of the actual value of the Haldeman interview. The network refuses to reveal anything about its contents. But people who witnessed the filming by Wallace and his 60 Minutes crew at Haldeman's home in Hancock Park, the "old money" section of Los Angeles, claim that Haldeman talked "freely and very candidly" about Watergate. Other CBS sources concede that Haldeman was simply putting his own personal interpretation on old disclosures. Haldeman says only that "I was a part of an important historical period that has been grossly misinterpreted and grossly misunderstood, and I saw this...
...Yale but had been turned down by the faculty there--in 1926 that allowed Lowell to pull the residential House plan from his top drawer and present it to the faculty as a fait accompli. Not, however, without much opposition. In addition to alumni, the decision produced an uproar among clubbies who had no desire to lose their exclusive status or to live in a heterogeneous situation. Lowell found himself walking a tight political line: he said he wasn't out to destroy the club system and social amenities as they were then practiced. He told a group of alumni...
...case will have an effect similar to that of the 1925 Scopes trial, at which the teaching of evolution was debated. Although Scopes was found guilty, the resulting public outcry led to a national debate that in turn eventually produced an enlightened consensus on evolution. Perhaps, says Ryan, the uproar over the Edelin verdict will help eventually to bring a reasonable accommodation among those who back abortion and those who oppose it. In the light of the strong passions that the issue arouses today, however, that would seem to be a forlorn hope...
There was an immediate uproar, and talk of a strike. But what became clear in that somber, three-hour-long meeting we had--the first one ever without Steve--was that the real hurt was not the wage cut but the fact that Steve had just decided to do it, without consulting anyone. We felt betrayed. We had always been one big happy family; all of a sudden Steve was asserting his authority over us as our employer...
...than in any other five-month period on record. It seemed hardly credible that only 15 months ago the unemployment rate stood at a reasonably tolerable 4.6%. The news that it had cracked 8%, and added a few points for good measure, was enough to stir yet another political uproar and add fierceness to the battle already being waged over Ford's first budget. Senator Edward Kennedy was quick to call the figures "shocking new evidence of the total bankruptcy of the Ford Administration's economic policy." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott shared the clear unease of Republicans...