Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Uproar in Birmingham...
...groups," said the University of Texas' Laycock, "it's just open season." The court itself was deeply split. In a spirited dissent, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the majority's stance "is incompatible with our nation's fundamental commitment to individual religious liberty." As a result of the uproar, Congress is considering a law to restore the compelling-interest test...
...Public uproar forced Lotus Development, a software manufacturer, and Equifax, a company that compiles financial information about individuals, to shelve their scheme to market a data base that would have allowed anyone with a personal computer to purchase a list of names, buying habits and income levels of selected households. The system would have permitted small businesses such as dry cleaners, pharmacies and pizza take-out restaurants to get a bead on their local customers...
...This summer Operation Rescue caused an uproar in Wichita, Kans., by blocking the entrances to local abortion clinics. What did you gain from those six weeks of confrontation...
...inspired by the 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge -- is a long black box with 10 portholes. A viewer passing from one to the next sees successive shots of an advancing naked woman. Broun compared the work to a peep show and removed it from the walls, until the resulting uproar compelled her to put it back. Broun says she wasn't practicing censorship but insists that she isn't obliged to give a public stage to work she finds "degrading." Substitute the term "tax dollars" for "public stage," and you have Senator Jesse Helms' argument against $ government funding...