Word: anger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing to express our deep frustration and anger at this week's Fly Club vote. It is clear that with the choice to reject co-ed membership, members of the Fly Club have missed an ideal opportunity to alter the sexist traditions maintained by Harvard's all-male final clubs. It is not only the women of Harvard who have been disappointed, but also the Fly class of 1994, the majority of Fly alumni and some present members of the club...
...federal advisory panel called on the National Institutes of Health to lift its 15-year ban on embryo research -- a suggestion that's sure to anger the religious right. The panel stated that embryos "do not have the same moral status as infants and children," and that scientists should be allowed to conduct federally funded experiments on them -- albeit with strict controls. One of these, the panel recommends, is to limit research to embryos that are no older than 14 days, the time when a fetus begins to develop a nervous system. The NIH is expected to make a final...
That conciliatory step may have been a response to the anger aroused by the Vatican's earlier attempts to rally nations against the meeting. The Holy See had courted fundamentalists in Iran, for example, but instead of bashing the West, the Islamic republic delighted delegates by working harmoniously to resolve differences over the language in the final document. Iran's Deputy Minister of Health, Malek Afzali, spoke proudly of his nation's aggressive family-planning program, which he claimed has cut Iran's population growth rate in half, from 3.6% a year in the early 1980s...
...making a strong impression without bearing much responsibility for the political consequences. Fierce and theatrical behind the pulpit, he preached grand ideas of justice and equality, then left his parishioners to decide what to do. Often his sermons brought people out into the streets in a surge of anger, only to be fired upon by the army. With a priest's immunity, he castigated the most powerful sectors of society -- the wealthy elite, the business class, the church's bishops, the politicians -- blaming them for the exploitative economic and political system that stole the country's wealth and condemned more...
...making and wary of advice, he found himself relying more and more on friends, fund raisers and political allies to undertake a national campaign. He and his advisers decided to temper his fabled ferocity, and he began lacing his speeches with references to brotherly love rather than to righteous anger...