Word: fumings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there's smoke, there's ire. Nonsmoking passengers complain about the poor air circulation on jetliners that forces them to inhale recycled smoke. Smokers feel like pariahs as their smoking sections keep dwindling. Taking the brunt of the bellyaching are flight attendants, who have to listen to both sides fume...
East European performers fume over the sluggish official talent agencies, which routinely do little more than collect the state's fat share of hard- currency earnings. Says Jana Jonasova, 44, a soprano at Prague's National Theater who has lost up to 70% of her fee for West European engagements to the Czechoslovak Pragokoncert agency: "I have to pay a Western agent another 20% to do the work. If I didn't organize things myself, I would never appear outside Prague...
BUSINESS: Air passengers fume over increasing lapses in safety and service...
What's the most polluted intersection in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? If you guessed the entrance to the Callahan Tunnel in Boston--where countless airport travelers' cars fume, you're wrong. Not even over-traveled Harvard Square wins the title...
Manhattan friends joke around and tell me they like Washington, which they will not characterize as a city, but merely as a quaint town I laugh aloud but silently fume at their insensitivity...