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The two men remained co-proprietors and joint editors for 25 years, taking a strong stand on some of the most controversial issues of their day.
It used a controversial new shape that chief designer Jack Telnack claimed was penned to make the Taurus stand out to sedan buyers, and likened the current Taurus to a pair of slippers.
Wyden was the first politician in Congress to stand against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ) ( in the House ) and the PROTECT IP Act ( PIPA ) ( in the Senate ) on the grounds that it would " step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don ’ t.
In 1998, Menem's attempt to stand for re-election a second time, by means of an ad hoc interpretation of a constitutional clause, met with strong resistance among Peronist rank-and-file, who were finding themselves under increasing pressure due to the highly controversial policies of the Menem administration and its involvement in corruption scandals.
* Take a stand on a controversial subject
The Prime Minister took a public stand on 24 January 2006 to support controversial American evangelist and faith healer Benny Hinn, who was conducting a crusade in Fiji.
His stand on movement for demanding separate statehood for Uttarakhand was as much controversial as his stand on Ayodhya movement in 1990 was.
It also regretted that " information that was controversial allowed to stand unchallenged ".
His victory was aided by the lack of a Liberal candidate as it decided instead to support his candidacy ( in those days the party was only able to stand in a limited number of places and had a very limited base to work from in Lincoln ) and the controversial adoption of Jonathan Guinness by the Conservatives.
Barrie had considered a more controversial resolution – particularly an upbeat ending with Crichton and Lady Mary continuing their relationship – but decided " the stalls wouldn't stand it ".
Both were considered controversial by the UCI, and while the records were allowed to stand, the positions were banned.
References are a syntactically controversial feature of C ++ because they obscure an identifier's level of indirection ; that is, unlike C code where pointers usually stand out syntactically, in a large block of C ++ code it may not be immediately obvious if the object being accessed is defined as a local or global variable or whether it is a reference ( implicit pointer ) to some other location, especially if the code mixes references and pointers.
The historical development of Iranian liberalism is a controversial subject, since several of the most fundamental liberal concepts stand in direct opposition with the ideological positions of the Islamic republic.
There was a potential problem with the Lord Chamberlain, who might not have licensed the play due to its controversial stand on Churchill.
In 1968, while a columnist for Chicago's American, Musburger penned a controversial column regarding Tommie Smith and John Carlos's protest of racial injustice in the United States with a Black Power salute on the medal stand during the 1968 Summer Olympics.
So unvanquishable was he that Tom Horan ( with whom Murdoch would share many a fine batting stand in the years to come ) was reduced to bowling Leg theory, the first known instance of that controversial tactic.
The party has taken a strong stand against the government's controversial Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill.
He played a major role in supporting the government's controversial rent control bill, and is remembered for his stand on environmental issues, including his adamant opposition to the proposed construction of a megadump in Flamborough.
General Wheeler's choice of this location to make a stand remains controversial, given the availability of safer and more defensible places in Cawnpore.
He made several controversial statements since his appointment, such as saying: " I will stand at the forefront to destroy the Japan Teachers ' Union, which is a cancer for Japanese education ".
However, at the same time, he is also remembered for the ruthless suppression of the Communist-organized Punnapra-Vayalar revolt, and his controversial stand in favour of an independent Travancore.

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Capp's increasingly controversial remarks at his campus speeches and during TV appearances cost him his semi-regular spot on the Tonight Show.
The administrators of these servers gained sufficient influence in the otherwise anarchic Usenet community to be able to push through controversial changes, for instance the Great Renaming of Usenet newsgroups during the 1980s.
Exposure to benzodiazepines during pregnancy has been associated with a slightly increased ( from 0. 06 to 0. 07 %) risk of cleft palate in newborns, a controversial conclusion as some studies find no association between benzodiazepines and cleft palate.
One of these systems, which is operated by Cornell University and began operation in 2000, was controversial during the planning and building states for potential negative environmental impact.
While Eddy's Manual established limited executive functions under the rule of law in place of a traditional hierarchy, the controversial 1991 publication of a book by Bliss Knapp led the then Board of Directors to make the unusual affidavit during a suit over Knapp's estate that neither acts by it violating the Manual, nor acts refraining from required action, constituted violations of the Manual.
In 1995, during the Cenepa War against Peru, Argentina gave to Ecuador in a controversial move, 6. 500 tons of rifles, cannons, anti-tank rockets, and ammunition.
Mountbatten making an address in Singapore, 1945. As a result of the Dieppe raid, Mountbatten became a controversial figure in Canada, with the Royal Canadian Legion distancing itself from him during his visits there during his later career ; his relations with Canadian veterans " remained frosty ".
Although the inclusion of cognitive appraisal as one of the elements is slightly controversial, since some theorists make the assumption that emotion and cognition are separate but interacting systems, the component processing model provides a sequence of events that effectively describes the coordination involved during an emotional episode.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Aimee Semple McPherson was a controversial faith healer of growing popularity during the Great Depression.
He enjoyed good relationships with union leaders like Albert Monk, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Jim Healy, leader of the radical Waterside Workers Federation and he gained a reputation for tolerance, restraint and a willingness to compromise, although his controversial decision to use troops to take control of cargo facilities during a waterside dispute in Bowen, Queensland in September 1953 provoked bitter criticism.
In 2005, a controversial amusement park scheme at the site was abandoned when builders unearthed many archaeological artifacts during the early stages of construction work.
The history of the change of living conditions during the industrial revolution has been very controversial, and was the topic that from the 1950s to the 1980s caused most heated debate among economic and social historians.
The Painted Bird, Kosiński's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others.
His handling of the Grand Fleet during the battle remains controversial, with some historians faulting the battlecruiser commander, Admiral David Beatty.
The game remains controversial to this day because of Stanford's contention that the Cal player's knee was down before he passed the ball during the second lateral and that the fifth lateral was an illegal forward pass.
A well-known and controversial NFL lateral pass occurred during the Music City Miracle play at the end of the 2000 playoff game between the Tennessee Titans and the Buffalo Bills.
He finished out the decade of the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Walter Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), a box office hit for which he was highly paid and that helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.
It emerged during the campaign that what Lenihan had told friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the then opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald ; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure.
Rock music entered the mainstream during the 1950s because of controversial white DJs such as Dewey Phillips, Alan Freed, Dick Clark and Wolfman Jack with an appreciation for black music.
Another controversial scene in the episode " Tales of Terror " saw the Meldrews visit Ronnie and Mildred on the understanding that Mildred had gone upstairs during a game of Happy Families and not returned ; Ronnie then shows her feet hanging outside of the window, revealing that she has committed suicide.
In a controversial 1997 book, attorney Michael Trotter blamed over-reliance by American lawyers on binding and persuasive authority, rather than the merits of the case at hand, as a major factor behind the escalation of legal costs during the 20th century.
Assuming office in 1770, he had a controversial career during which land title disputes and factional conflict slowed the initial attempts to populate and develop the island under a feudal system.
Steiner became a well-known and controversial public figure during and after World War I.
In 2007 James D. Watson, Nobel laureate in biology, gave a controversial interview to the Sunday Times Magazine during a book tour in the United Kingdom.

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