Word: upset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent publicity on affirmative action has really upset me. Not only is this a racist solution, but it is a detriment to those it "helps" and society as a whole. Affirmative action wants to correct past racism, sexism and other "isms" with new ones. Where does this end? Do we suppress white males until they need an affirmative action of their own? This type of correction sets one group back so the others can flourish, hurting everyone in the process...
...small club," he said about the club's 10,000-member membership. "When somebody gets upset, we try to respond...
Jonesboro was supposed to be a refuge of sorts. Mitch was originally from Spring Valley, Minn. (pop. 2,460), and he was floundering by the time he and his mother and brother left, first for Kentucky and then for Arkansas. The amiably goofy kid was upset by the 1994 divorce of his parents, Scott and Gretchen. Close friends and young relatives had watched his behavior deteriorate. "Since they split, he's gone downhill," says his cousin Mike Niemeyer, 17. "He'd get into fights, some physical, some verbal. He was easily p___ed off." The fine manners that he shared...
...Porter, one of the girls injured in the shooting, was supposedly the object of Mitchell's affection. But she is said to have told him that she did not want a boyfriend. Stephanie Engels, Candace's cousin, says Candace had sought out her teachers, telling them that Mitchell seemed upset and violent. "She was really worried," says Engels. "But I don't think the school took any notice of it." Principal Karen Curtner insists that neither she nor any teachers were informed of such reports. But, says sixth-grader Kara Tate, "he said he was definitely going to shoot Candace...
...consumers to buy the players: "It's a question of the marketplace maturing, and Steven feels very strongly about it." One Amblin title, Twister, slipped out "under the radar" through Warner Home Video, but other films made for various studios are being held back. "Why would we want to upset Spielberg?" asks an exec from Universal, which owns rights to Jaws but won't release it for fear of alienating the man responsible for many of the studio's greatest hits. Spielberg isn't the only holdout. Paramount and Fox have also steered clear of DVD, while Disney...