Word: fumed
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...Havana will, no doubt, fume about how the Cuban Adjustment Act - which grants asylum to any Cubans who manage to reach U.S. shores, but sends home those intercepted at sea - encourages people to risk their lives. Campaigning against the act has become the centerpiece of Fidel Castro's domestic propaganda efforts in the wake of the Elian Gonzalez case, but that doesn't mean Havana will use Thursday's previously scheduled immigration talks with U.S. officials in Washington to threaten, once again, to open the spigots. (The current arrangement was negotiated between the two governments, which have no official diplomatic...
...joints, but we drink mostly bottled water. And we don't often burn candles; some wicks contain lead that can reach toxic levels. The biggest source of lead here is Rachel's stained-glass studio in the basement. But Brennan declared himself "wickedly impressed" by the exhaust fan, respirator, fume collector and gloves Rachel uses when she works...
...just like the music execs who fume and rant about "those damn hackers stealing artists' music," the L.A. Times story quoted an executive at a pattern making company who called the several hundred online pattern swappers (mostly middle aged housewives) "the scourge of all that is decent and right." Please...
Sure, after a sip or two you can tell the difference between a Pouilly-Fume and a Pouilly-Fuisse, but can you pinpoint the region from which your after-dinner chocolate hails? That's the latest challenge facing today's gustatory snobs, who in this age of excess must find new ways to set their palates apart from those of the masses. Let them eat Milky Ways and M&M's. The true elite prefer dark chocolate, these days known as pure dark or grand cru or vintage or whatever other nomenclature specialty companies such as Sharffen Berger, E. Guittard...
...advocates will remind the public how difficult it is to "hit a bullet with a bullet"; detractors will claim the test proves their claim that the system is a multibillion-dollar waste of time. And Russia will fume at Washington's disregard for the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which sharply limits the deployment of such systems. Still, don't expect that to restrain politicians on both sides of the aisle from lavishing billions of dollars on the program - it's enormously popular on Capitol Hill, and unlikely to be scaled back in an election year no matter how poor...