Back then the controversy centered on groups formed under section 527 of the Internal Revenue code, although the amounts involved look quaint in comparison to the vast gushers of secret political money being funneled through 501(c)4 "social welfare" organizations and 501(c)6 trade associations in this election cycle.
Creative Evolution appeared in 1907 and was not only the source of the "Bergson legend," as well as of numerous, lively academic and public controversies centering on his philosophy and his role as an intellectual.
Some climatologists objected to the article's characterizations of their work, but the real controversy centered on its approach.
The controversy centered on two vague and largely unexplained references in the statement that have rankled India's chattering classes.
The San Antonio controversy centered on the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, a nonprofit arts and cultural organization also involved in political and social activism.
On the phone recently, I suggested to Delany that Asimov's poor attempt at humor — which, whatever its intent, also served as a reminder, as Delany notes in "Racism and Science Fiction," that his racial identity would forever be in the minds of his white peers, no matter the occasion — foreshadowed a more recent controversy, centered on a different set of sci-fi awards.
Much of the controversy centered on the song's refrain, "The big fool says to press on," which was Seeger's condemnation of the way that President Johnson (and the government in general) kept getting the United States deeper and deeper into the war.
This week, four officers were caught up in a national controversy centered on accusations that a cop may have murdered his wife in a case that has exposed allegations of sexual misconduct by numerous officers, possibly involving sex with a minor.
The controversy centered on claims about the immorality of the teachers and misconduct among students.
One primary controversy centered on the principle of impermanence: if all phenomena are impermanent, the Sautrāntika challenged the Sarvāstivāda and the Theravāda, then dharmas must be changing continuously and can neither exist in the past and future nor endure for any period of time, however short, in the present.
