Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tale is Cocoon with cojones. The ) two old poops take an even harder line with the young people who want them to act their age than the retirees in last year's film did. Mostly, though, Tough Guys is a lot of fun, particularly when Eli Wallach, as a furious, nearsighted hit man, is on the scene. Maybe the script by James Orr and Jim Cruickshank is a little flabby around the middle, and maybe Jeff Kanew's direction is a little wobbly on its pins toward the end, but those are forgivable, perhaps inevitable, flaws in a film about...
...gambit backfired badly. A furious Lugar denounced Botha's warning as "despicable" and bordering on "bribery and intimidation." Somewhat startled, Botha shot back that it was the first time he had heard that "one was not supposed to provide information to an American Senator." His riposte seemed relatively mild, considering that the bill under review was designed specifically and solely to influence South African policy. Still, Botha apparently failed to appreciate the Senate's carefully nurtured view of its proceedings as "deliberative" and free from apparent coercion...
...chairman of the House Budget Committee, angrily withdrew a dinner invitation to Japanese Ambassador Nobuo Matsunaga. Representative Mickey Leland of Texas led the 21-member Congressional Black Caucus in calling on President Reagan to demand an apology. Esteban Torres of California and his 14-member Hispanic Caucus were equally furious...
...Friday the sell-off continued in the morning. By midday a furious rally was under way, recovering more than half of Thursday's losses, but it soon fizzled. When the closing bell rang, the Dow had dropped an additional 34 points, swelling the week's loss to 141 points, the worst ever. Volume set another record, rising to 240 million. At the end of Wall Street's most hectic week, the Dow stood at 1758.72, down 161 from its September high. On the Big Board, losers outnumbered winners 4 to 1 on Friday. The American Stock Exchange and the over...
...contrary, whenever a nation tries to dispose of its surpluses, furious fights erupt, even among old friends. Australian Foreign Minister Bill Hayden has been thundering that subsidized American sales of wheat to the Soviet Union and sugar to China, traditional Australian markets, could undermine the bilateral defense alliance. Thais are so incensed by subsidized American rice exports that a Bangkok newspaper recently ran the headline BEST FRIEND U.S. CUTS THAILAND'S THROAT...