Word: vehemently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accident at Three Mile Island occurred, Radiation Physicist Ernest Sternglass was at the scene, Geiger counter in hand, crying disaster to anyone who would listen. He predicted an increase of 5% to 20% in the incidence of leukemia in children of the area within a year. A vehement foe of nuclear power, the University of Pittsburgh scientist exclaimed: "The reaction of the community should be to stand up and scream...
Some observers add that Lamberg-Karlovsky was originally forced to use the threat of selling off two collections--rousing vehement departmental and museum dissent--in order to persuade the University that the Peabody should be cut in on the planned capital fund drive...
...encourage a consumer boycott of violators or withhold federal contracts from them because it would be over-stepping his presidential authority. If it becomes clear that big business is flaunting his guidelines, smirking at them as they did at Gerald Ford's ridiculous WIN buttons, Carter should reconsider his vehement rejection of mandatory controls...
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...during the summer session, but instead printed The Harvard Summer News (later The Summer Crimson), which was essentially a Summer School-funded paper printed by The Crimson as a money-making venture. In 1971, Summer School officials, in an attempt to intimidate Crimson editors who had been engaged in vehement criticism of the University administration, withdrew that funding. Since that day, the summer issues of The Crimson have been totally without debt to the Summer School administration...