Word: uproars
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...uproar of negative publicity forced the government to return some of the money, but it is still holding most of it. And there is still $4 million in unpaid fines, according to the tribe's attorney, Conly J. Schulte. "The tribe to this day can't use bank accounts for fear that the Federal Government is just going to seize any money," says Schulte. That thwarts the tribe's attempts to invest in any business, even one having nothing to do with gambling...
...American prelates and a favorite of the Vatican's, had come to symbolize the reckless indifference of Roman Catholic Church officials. That was when he first traveled unannounced to Rome to offer his resignation to Pope John Paul II, who quietly refused to accept it. Despite the growing uproar in the U.S., the Vatican was determined not to give the impression that its decisions are swayed by the passions of public opinion...
...grew up in Alabama during the era of resistance to desegregation. Raines' well-known liberal sympathies prompted great suspicion that two articles by sports columnists were spiked because they took issue with the paper's stance. The paper's No. 2 editor, Gerald Boyd, tried to quell the uproar by explaining in a staff memo that one piece amounted to "unseemly and self-absorbed" quarreling with the editorial page and that the other's "logic did not meet our standards." But that failed to dampen the newsroom outrage, and the top editors decided to print the columns after...
Most of the uproar stems from a conservative organization called the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which previously assailed Disney's Miramax division, among other studios, for films it deemed blasphemous. Whether it will succeed with the utterly independent Samuel Goldwyn Films is more problematic. So far, the league has generated a lot of news stories and a letter-writing campaign that has brought 5,000 letters to Goldwyn...
...uproar soon hushes—Fenwick doesn’t even call for time and the All-American doesn’t even have to call for the ball. Maggette pushes the ball the length of the floor, a devastating blend of intensity and cool as the clock ticks on, and finally pulls up for a 10-foot jumper from the right baseline that sucks the life right out of a throng that could smell overtime. Fenwick wins, 70-68, and the media hordes descend upon Maggette. (Did we mention that this is Chicago...