But, even before the furore over Buzz, there were signs of cracks in the edifice.
Still, like the banking crisis which gave him a bounce last autumn, the expenses furore and the liminal feeling it has reinforced offer him a shot at redemption.
The furore may have prompted California's lawmakers to scale back a plan to save money and ease the chronic overcrowding in the state's prisons by releasing some non-violent prisoners early.
CalPERS has also been caught up in a furore over the activities of "placement agents", who help financial firms win investing assignments from big pension funds in return for a fee.
His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians.
In Massachusetts, the furore that followed a Supreme Court ruling in 2004 has mostly subsided.
The Juventus strikers have been considering their futures after the club were relegated from the top flight as punishment for their part in the match-fixing furore.
In the face of the furore, AIG's chief executive, Ed Liddy, appealed to his staff to give back at least half of their awards and asked them to respond by a deadline of last night.
The sensitivity of the question was shown last year by a furore at Harvard University.
After the furore which greeted our first report I felt pusillanimously that we should excise this explanatory passage.
Its introduction into China from Myanmar during the Qing dynasty caused much furore among art connoisseurs and has since been known as the King of Jade throughout the world.
The furore over AIG is awkward for the new administration in several ways.
China's science popularisation law gives teeth to those fighting 'pseudoscience' - but also feeds the furore over what the term really means, report Jia Hepeng and Li Jiao.
The current furore should help reverse both trends, she thinks.
For example, Britain locks up more children in secure detention than any other western European country (though the total has recently fallen a bit), in part, say some, because of the Bulger furore.
One person close to the family says the clan is waiting for the public furore to calm.
More immediately, the furore is getting in the way of saving the system.
THE furore over alleged manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and its European cousin, the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR), continues to rage.
It caused a furore.
He had too much experience not to know that a d閎utant (and he was this as regards political economy at the time of the publication of his work) who in the first act creates a furore is easily excused if in the following ones he only occasionally raises himself above mediocrity;
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