Word: angers
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...forced to sell plasma to pay their tax bills. In other cases, farmers who stand up to bullying local officials are murdered. Since Chen and Wu first reported on the problem, China's government has taken steps to reform rural taxation. But with violent protests now commonplace, the anger of the country's peasants may yet form a wave big enough to destabilize, if not upend, China's economic miracle. -By Peter Ritter...
Fortunately, strong performances from Smith and Newton rescue the movie from its hackneyed plot. Newton’s Linda, a hard-hearted realist frustrated by Gardner’s financial failure and enduring optimism, grounds the film in reality. Her anger seethes just below the surface, and Newton skillfully balances her constant rage with appropriate apathy and exhaustion...
...extinguisher. This was the second time in a week that students have been left homeless for a night due to improper use of a fire extinguisher—a nearly identical incident took place next door in Eliot’s D entryway the previous Saturday. Some residents expressed anger at the decision of the police, claiming that their extension of the ban beyond L entryway was retribution for the recent spate of false alarms. Paul B. Davis ’07, a resident of J entryway in the Annex, wrote on the Kirkland e-mail list that the actions...
...Iraq war will mount. Scenes of chaos and human misery in Iraq would fuel bitterness against the U.S., first for having initiated the war, then for leaving Iraqis to their terrible fate. The domestic American reaction would be one of relief at being out of a terrible situation, but anger at having been involved in the first place and having invested so much, only to have so little to show...
...This year’s campaign wasn’t vitriolic—a lot less votes were cast out of anger,” Allen said...