Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hucksters greedily siphon off anything they can stuff into their own pockets. The protests that rocked the communist government in 1989 were in part fueled by popular resentment of endemic financial chicanery. Today the failure to establish political or judicial systems that can check corruption is stirring widespread public anger once again...
...once offered Shirley MacLaine a glimpse of his wry wit and burning anger. When he sat next to the famously pro-China actress at a White House state dinner in January 1979, she thanked him for the gracious reception she enjoyed in China in the early '70s. Deng, who had been in exile at that time, replied without a moment's pause, "The people who were your hosts then are in jail...
...life had been. When visitors talked of injustice in China, he dismissed them with a wave of his hand. What the West would regard as injustice did not concern him much. These were niceties that neither he nor his country could afford. I saw Deng shake with real anger only when he talked about the Vietnamese, whom he saw as impudent. When Deng complained bitterly to Vice President Walter Mondale about the "ungrateful" Vietnamese, Mondale wryly noted, "We have had some experience of our own with the Vietnamese." Deng did not even smile...
...this is one industry, and one company, that glows white hot with anger between its labor and management. United, Northwest, USAir, TWA and Continental are lined up with labor negotiations like so many jets waiting to take off from O'Hare. Does this mean a year of strikes? Not necessarily, but the situation at American is a sort of wind sock for the industry...
American's 9,300 pilots are perfectly willing to ground themselves and the nation's largest carrier, taking with them its 90,000 employees. Their anger is directed at one employee in particular, Robert Crandall, chairman of AMR. "As long as you treat your employees as merely 'units costs,' like the Styrofoam coffee cups we throw out after every flight, morale will remain at rock bottom," wrote one pilot on the very active Website of the Allied Pilots' Association, which represents American's pilots...