Word: clamor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this voice to the clamor against Danny Ainge's playing for the Celtics...
...Congressional debates related to higher education, the jousting over student loans provoked the loudest protests from college spokesmen, and the final proposals may hurt more than 800,000 students nationwide. Meanwhile, the clamor in Harvard's financial aid office has all but ceased. New family income restrictions will, in fact, be considerably more lenient than expected for students attending expensive Ivy League schools, and the cuts will not keep anyone out of the University this year or next [see sidebar...
Well before she played Joanna, the wife who walks out on Dustin Hoffman and their son in Kramer vs. Kramer, an astonishing public clamor had set up around this almost gawky-looking blond, all bones and angles. When Kramer opened, the outcry redoubled. Though the script was weighted too much toward sympathy for Hoffman and the boy, Streep brought the film back into balance. By playing Joanna as a woman baffled and hurt not simply by her husband's shortcomings but by her own failures, she gave it a subtlety it would not have otherwise possessed...
Under current zoning laws, one house is permitted on five acres. But government scientists have urged raising the zoning requirement to one house on 40 acres. They argue that if the population is allowed to rise, the residents will clamor for flood-control drainage canals, thus further reducing the area's ability to clean and store water. Beyond this, environmentalists point out, development will imperil the East Everglades as a feeding and breeding ground for wildlife in the neighboring national park, home of such endangered species as the Cape Sable sparrow and the Florida panther...
...Cabinet's most controversial member is under attack not only by environmental groups but also by the state of California, staffers in his own department's Office of Surface Mining, and even Congress. Said California Democrat Alan Cranston, in an impassioned speech to the Senate: "The clamor for his removal grows more persistent every day. I want Mr. Watt stopped...