Word: fuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House version would leave enforcement to the jurisdiction of the states and allow up to 18 days a year of pollution in those areas. By contrast, the Senate has voted not only to retain EPA'S authority, but to add a Carter Administration provision that is making industry fume: a so-called best available technology clause, which requires polluters to install such expensive pollution-control devices as smokestack "scrubbers...
...protecting so much of Alaska's wilderness from commercial development-and possible pollution. But he is even more furious that they have not done a better job in D.C. His lungs were so accustomed to breathing the 49th state's pure air that the capital's fume-filled version induced a violent coughing spasm-and a hernia. "I'm just not used to breathing this stuff," said Young...
Picture this: women sit in the executive suites and men in the typing pools. Women are aggressive and combative, and men are meek and passive. Women ogle waiters and crack bad jokes about sex while their male companions sit and fume. Imagine all that and you know most of what you need to know -or want to know-about All That Glitters, Norman Lear's new syndicated TV soap opera, premiering on 40 stations across the country this week...
Even as they prepare to receive the U.S. Secretary of State on his first official visit to Moscow, Kremlin leaders fume as they hear yet another rhetorical outpouring about human rights from Washington. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, angered by a hard new U.S. stand on economic, nuclear and defense issues, struggles to understand the complex personality of the evangelist in the White House. Israelis and Arabs wonder what the President means by his seemingly offhand use of heavily freighted Middle Eastern code words. Brazil's prickly military leaders-along with other authoritarian regimes in Latin America...
...change society; regulate yourself so that society doesn't bother you. "Choose to do the things that make you feel good about yourself," advise Psychoanalysts Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz in How to Be Your Own Best Friend. Don't fume about the tax laws, because you can't do anything about them anyway, says Psychotherapist Wayne W. Dyer, author of the top-selling Your Erroneous Zones...