Word: angers
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...perhaps most unfortunate that this dispute had to reach the pitch of anger and conflict that it did. Contracts are best hammered out in conference rooms, not picket lines. Both sides must realize that this is no kind of way to handle labor negotiations, and this fight should be studied to understand how to avoid future strikes at Yale...
...presidential debates--and last week he chose a quiet Friday afternoon to take a roundhouse swing at Dean on the ancient but still potent issues of Social Security and Medicare. In each case, he used a most un-Gephardtian quality to drive his point home: a flushed, sputtering anger...
Gephardt's anger is an utterly transparent industrial age process, like a steam locomotive creaking out of a station. A calculation is made: Dean's anti-Bush ballistics are working. Chug. Need to match that. Chug. In the first debate, Gephardt slowly torqued himself into--chug-chug--fury over the President's foreign policy, which "is"--chug-chug-chug!--"a miserable failure." Wild applause. Gephardt seemed to blink, surprised. "I came up with that line right there, on the spot," he told me. "It just spilled...
...been spilling ever since. Gephardt appears to be working his way through a thesaurus of anger. In the second debate, the Bush Administration was an "abomination." In our conversation last week, Bush was "atrocious." Can "awful" be far behind...
...classic Horatio Alger story. Unfortunately, he was like Horatio Alger on steroids." JOHN C. COFFEE, Columbia University securities-law professor, describing the blue-collar background and $139.5 million pay package of ex-New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso, who resigned amid anger over his compensation