Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mark Sauer, director of the fertility program at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, admits that the uproar "speaks to ageism and a double standard in society." Though the cutoff in his program is 55 (there's no cutoff for men), he had treated the woman earlier, believing she was 53. Now that she has given birth, he says, "I'm happy with the outcome, but I can't endorse the practice because of the risks. We see serious obstetrical complications in more than half the women over the age of 45." But if a woman accepts...
Remember the uproar about Hillary Clinton's headbands and changing hair style? This ethos of personal criticism isn't limited to the United States. NATO allies expressed disapproval of Mrs. Clinton's attire on a goodwill tour she gave. She received her harshest criticism in Italy for looking lackluster next to a high-level official's wife, a former super-model...
...uproar stems from a basic philosophical disagreement between McCaffrey, who has pursued hard-line measures as Drug Czar, and many of the physicians affiliated with the center who advocate more liberal measures such as legalization of medical marijuana and needle exchanges...
...Nicholson's two attorneys, Jonathan Shapiro and Liam O'Grady, say their client will fight them vigorously--then Nicholson would have been either a very cool customer or a weirdly reckless one; maybe both. He allegedly went to work for the Russians just as the CIA was in an uproar over Ames, the most important mole ever discovered within the agency. On the basis of information Ames provided over almost nine years of betrayal, Moscow executed at least 10 Soviets working secretly for American intelligence. Anger and embarrassment led the agency to swear it would never happen again. Two months...
...uproar now, when the suit had been pending for more than two years? Well, a few weeks ago, the government and the public discovered that one senior executive had tape-recorded a meeting. On the tape, the senior executives of Texaco made racially disparaging comments and admitted that they promoted only white employees into the highest ranks. They also discussed shredding documents containing the secret evaluations based on race which were demanded in the case, a point the Justice Department will deal with later...