Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less lucrative, magazine and book divisions run by Donald's older brother S.I. Jr., known as Si, the shadowy Newhouse style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and, increasingly, by tumult and frenzy. In recent years scarcely a month has gone by without an uproar at one or another of what has grown to 20 U.S. and 41 non-U.S. magazines, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Details, HG and Self, every one of which has had one or more top editors ousted and design face-lifts imposed. At the Random House book-publishing...
...program has sparked an uproar because he declines to offer the same discounts to any non-Christians except Jews, whom Jackson said he includes because they believe in God. Even so, David Friedman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, has urged Jackson to drop the program. Says he: "I want him to see there is something wrong in asking customers to declare their religious affiliation and to treat them differently according to that...
Despite civic uproar, the Cincinnati show of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography is drawing over 2,500 viewers a day; previous exhibits drew 556 and 225 patrons daily...
...what count for the audience, not the faceless executives who ostensibly hire and fire them. David Burke, president of CBS News, found that out the hard way, when he suspended 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney last month for allegedly making offensive remarks about blacks and homosexuals. The uproar over the suspension was instant and unrelenting. Thousands of complaints from viewers poured in to CBS. Press critics chided the network for trampling on Rooney's free-speech rights. CBS colleagues, most notably 60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt, lobbied on Rooney's behalf...
...stepped-up spraying touched off a political uproar. The Los Angeles City Council unanimously asked the state to conduct further studies and examine alternatives. Moaned Los Angeles County Supervisor Ed Edelman: "Once, twice, O.K. People will accept that. But twelve times? I question what the health effects might...