Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerry Rafshoon, newly hired to improve Carter's image, who had argued most forcefully, that Carter should press ahead with the dismissal of Griffin regardless of O'Neill's anger. Backing off, he said, would make the President look indecisive. In the end, the Administration's handling of the Griffin affair seemed not only indecisive but inept...
...also trying to broaden his country's foreign political alignments. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, which Assad warned would be a fateful mistake, is still viewed in Damascus as an "outrageous disloyalty by a selfish man." Nonetheless, Assad privately tried to modulate the anti-Egyptian anger of such radical Arab states as Libya and Iraq...
...recalled to China?empty. Despite all the invective, both countries have agreed to resume discussions of their differences in Hanoi next week. Foreign observers, however, doubt that the low-level talks will do much to resolve what appear to be the real reasons for the neighborly conflict: Hanoi's anger at Chinese support for Viet Nam's hostile neighbor, Cambodia, and Peking's fear of expanding Soviet influence in Viet...
Carter has concluded that he has made many of his mistakes by ignoring his instincts and compromising instead of standing firm. As an example, his aides point to his reluctant backing of the generous minimum wage law. Not only did it fuel inflation and anger business, but it failed to win much gratitude from union leaders. The tougher "new" Carter has also been taking on Congress publicly, attacking it-accurately enough-for being slow, unresponsive and susceptible to pressures from special interests...
...this song is offset by two awful turkeys, "Adam Raised a Cain" and "Streets of Fire." Almost identical, they throb like a migraine with leaden, new-wave-inspired beats while Springsteen growls incoherently and lays down overamplified guitar riffs. These songs seem to be his answer to the anger of punk rock, but they sound more like annoying filler material...