Word: clamor
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With the new baseball season underway, residents of Boston and members of Red Sox nation have begun another clamor for the construction of a new stadium. Allegedly, it will happen this time--they even have blueprints. But unless Boston Mayor Tom Menino and the Beacon Hill gang actually mobilize in the next few months, the situation will look awfully similar to the football stadium debacle last year that almost led to the Hartford Patriots. The Red Sox are a Boston institution. They ought to get the infrastructure that they want for this project. Everybody wins with a new stadium...
...remain in the U.S. The decision had been taken "so as not to take a position in this highly charged political atmosphere," said ABC News president David Westin, adding that Elian's views on the subject of returning to Cuba were contradictory - a teaser that will only increase the clamor to broadcast the tape...
...That clamor came as several hundred fans, a marching band, and 43 female athletes used every last breath to support the women's swimming and diving teams. The teams were attempting to complete an undefeated season in a double dual meet with Princeton and Yale...
...benefit Wednesday, when Turkey voted to delay his execution - a punishment handed down on grounds of treason - pending a hearing by the European Court of Human Rights. Turkey's signature on the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights requires the delay, and despite the strong domestic clamor for the execution of the man blamed by Turkey for the more than 30,000 deaths caused by the Kurdish insurgency and the Turkish response, Ankara's passage into full E.U. membership depends in part on its handling of the case - the death penalty is banned...