Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing I pray we all learned from the recent Peninsula uproar is that no matter how frightening or wrongheaded we considered Christopher Griffith's article to be, we never doubted his right to write it. Let us fight this, not for Mr. Kirtley, for us, students with voices, students who will be heard. --Sozi T. Sozinho...
Controversies, while rare, reflect Harvard's idiosyncrasies. In the mid-1980s, the installation of cable TV generated an uproar because some residents feared the negative impact of shows with racy, sexually explicit images. Even today, Petrin says, "we don't have a high penetration for cable...
Controversies, while rare, reflect Harvard's idiosyncrasies. In the mid-1980s, the installation of cable TV generated an uproar because some residents feared the negative impact of shows with racy, sexually explicit images. Even today, Petrin says, "we don't have a high penetration for cable...
While headlines were monopolized by the gays-in-the-military uproar and the aborted nominations of Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood and Guinier, Clinton was putting together a tough economic program. It meant scrapping most of his proposed investments and the middle-class tax cut. It meant proposing new taxes, which outraged Republicans, and spending cuts, which troubled some Democrats. It meant braving the warnings of deficit hawks that higher taxes and less spending would lead to stagnation or recession, and following the advice of Republican Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who insisted that a credible deficit-reduction...
...uproar? Isn't it business as usual for countries to enforce their views on the world, and doesn't the U.S. regularly throw its superpower weight around? Yes, Washington often berates other countries, promises benefits or denies privileges to get its way. But the Helms-Burton law, which permits Cuban Americans to go to court in the U.S. to sue foreign companies "trafficking" in their property seized by the Castro regime, and Iran-Libya sanctions, which bar U.S. financing and export rights to foreign firms making new investments in Libyan or Iranian oil and gas, are something different. They threaten...