Word: uproars
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...fuel its growth, Beijing also needs to buy oil without having to worry about the U.S. - the world's largest consumer of oil - working at cross purposes. That includes in places like Saudi Arabia, Washington's long-time ally, and even in the U.S. itself - where a political uproar last year deterred China's cnooc from buying Unocal. Beijing, in short, could drive a hard bargain in return for its acquiescence on sanctions. So what will Hu do? The conventional view is that China will never endorse serious economic measures against Iran because it needs oil and gas too badly...
Thomas R. Benson ’09, who said he is considering a professional career in politics, wrote in an e-mail that the uproar over Kennedy’s Owl ties would not discourage him from joining a final club. “The attack on Kennedy was unmerited,” Benson wrote...
...Summers’ advisers feared that the tapes, or even the text, would escalate the already burgeoning controversy surrounding the president, two of the sources said. If Summers’ critics and the media could quote direct passages from the speech, his advisers figured, then the uproar might never subside...
...president may have been fighting many of his battles on his own. With his presidency in crisis, it was Summers himself—backed by a few confidantes outside Mass. Hall—who resisted kowtowing to the Faculty in the days before the controversy turned into a national uproar...
...uproar at Harvard was also a hot topic of discussion at several private dinner parties the president attended last semester in Cambridge, New York, and Washington, according to people who were there. Two individuals who attended separate parties with Summers recalled hearing the president, in reference to the Faculty’s criticism of his leadership, say the same thing: “It has not increased my faith in humanity...