Word: annoyances
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...leave until they have a chance to land promptly at their next stop. This prudent procedure caused more than 70,000 holiday travelers around the nation to be delayed last week when fog closed Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, a major airline hub. While the air-flow controls may annoy passengers eager to get going on their trips, pilots and controllers prefer it to in-air stacking because it leaves fewer airborne planes to worry about...
...Nicknames make people feel like part of the team," Co-Captain Ann "Trees" Wilson says. "If your nickname happens to annoy you, what...
...nice man like Ronald Reagan manage to annoy so many women? Pretty easily. He ran on a platform that abandoned the Republican Party's traditional support for the Equal Rights Amendment. He enraged working women when he suggested that part of the nation's unemployment problem was owing to the increase of women in the work force. He consistently lent support to the effort to make abortion illegal. The depth of women's resentment on that issue alone was dramatized in San Antonio at a lunch at which Republican Senator Robert Packwood was praised for his opposition...
...perfect day for fishing, so no one paid much attention when some of the faithful who crowded into St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw brought their rods, reels and tackle bags. As soon as the service was over, however, it became obvious that the worshipers were angling to annoy the government. From their satchels they produced large banners with the word SOLIDARITY stenciled in red paint, which they began to string from one fishing rod to another. As the banners appeared, hands shot up in the V-for-victory sign, and a shouting, cheering crowd set out to march...
...drop. Reagan in recent weeks has been hearing pleas to lower the deficit-perhaps by cutting defense spending, perhaps by reducing or delaying tax cuts-from conservative supporters in such organizations as the Business Roundtable and the National Association of Manufacturers. So far the advice seems only to annoy the President. In a speech to the N.A.M. last week, he declared, "I've been a little disappointed lately with some in the business community who have forgotten that feeding more dollars to Government [by increasing taxes] is like feeding a stray pup. It just follows you home and sits...