Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Family Association, which is headed by right-wing evangelist Donald Wildmon, is supplying Knox with an attorney who hopes to file a lawsuit on behalf of the students and perhaps take it all the way to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Governor Fordice, a Republican who once raised a national uproar by referring to America as "a Christian nation," is zealously exploiting the issue, declaring, "Any place that Americans want to pray ought to be the place for prayer...
...vociferous disapproval. Secretary of Defense Les Aspin has begun to second-guess himself. When Americans began calling on Clinton to bring the boys back home, Aspin decided not to grant his military commander's request for more tanks in Somalia. His decision was not publicized then, but imagine the uproar had he announced that he would send in additional tanks. Ironically, those tanks could have saved the lives of the American soldiers killed by Aidid's men on October...
Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's recent testimony in support of the Colorado constitutional amendment which ensures that no Colorado citizen will have a special claim on the state by virtue of his preferred method of sexual gratification has, quite predictably, stirred up quite a bit of uproar among the usual parties. It seems that the idea that a Harvard professor might say something sensible about public policy (a rare enough occurrence, to be sure) is simply too much for Harvard's left wing to bear...
JURORS ARE ONLY HUMAN. This was the question that had Los Angeles in an uproar. In a community exhausted by 2 1/2 years of strife since Rodney King's arrest, jurors reached their conclusions under the influence of a number of forces inside and outside the courtroom. Were they scared? Were they moved by a desire to bring events to a close by meting out a punishment for Denny's attackers comparable to the one for King's? A day after the trial ended, one juror denied that anxiety about the potential aftermath of their decision influenced the verdict...
What's the ruckus about? The real issues are as difficult to sort out as the label on a bottle of complex multivitamins. Much of the uproar has been stirred by the Nutritional Health Alliance, a pressure group that accuses the FDA of trying to empty the shelves of the health-food stores and require a doctor's prescription for herbs and amino acids. "They intend to destroy the ; industry," says Gerald Kessler, executive director of NHA and founder of Nature's Plus vitamins. "They want to take 9 out of 10 supplements and call them unsafe food additives...