Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month-long conflict overfishing and conservationin Canadian waters, Canadian patrol boats allegedly tried to snip the nets off two Spanish trawlers, and by some accounts actually boarded the vessels. Canadian officials, who have stopped European boats recently to prevent overfishing of turbot, flatly denied the charges. Still, the uproar caused international talks over the issue in Brussels to be suspended for a day. Behind the scenes,TIME Ottawa contributor Gavin Scottsays, cooler heads at the negotiating table expect a full resolution as soon as Monday...
...Tuesday Feb. 21, amid the pit's uproar, Leeson replied quite evenly to a question from an A.P.-Dow Jones reporter curious about rumors that the Englishman was making huge purchases on the Japanese and Singapore exchanges on behalf of his London-based investment bank. Leeson coolly explained that he was "buying Nikkei futures here and selling them there." As simple as that, nothing out of the ordinary. One of Leeson's colleagues at another Barings office in Asia told Time of a phone call with Leeson two days later. "He sounded really weird on the phone, like...
...abortion-protest case, submitted an article to the review that justified killing abortion doctors. The piece was approved and scheduled for publication--until the day Hill murdered two people outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic; then the article was yanked, and Hirsh was fired several months later. The uproar caught Regent Law School dean J. Nelson Happy by surprise: "If the student editors decided to publish this, I didn't feel it was appropriate to stop them. It didn't strike me as something inherently mischievous. Then I got a call from the New York Times...
...allowed to compete. Appearing with Barbara Walters on abc's 20/20 last Friday in conjunction with the publication this week of his autobiography, Breaking the Surface (Random House; $23), Louganis revealed that he was hiv-positive when he competed in Seoul and that he now has AIDS. Imagine the uproar then-it was cacophonous enough last week-over the cut Louganis received when he hit his head on the springboard during the preliminaries. Carrying his teddy bear with a matching bandage to and from the pool might not have played quite so well, or assuaged the AIDS paranoia...
...that, problems such as the recent uproar over pension cuts and changes in health insurance for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will probably recur as the president is forced to trim budgets and allocate what he terms increasingly scarce resources...