Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years the issue has raised intense passions on both sides. Charges of intimidation, coercion, invasion of privacy, perjury, and other transmissions have been flung back and forth. Furious lobbying has gone on. An administrative law judge even threw out the results of an entire union election...
...slaughter on the Rue des Roisiers was but one of the recent rash of terrorist attacks that have plagued France, and most particularly its Jews. With the war raging in Lebanon and the local Jewish community furious at what it perceives to be pro-PLO posturing by the government and the French press disparaging Israel, tempers were running short...
...skip it." In junior high school, he was assigned to a large special-education class that satisfied the law but virtually ignored Nat's problems. He and his parents were unaware of how little he was learning until a college counselor told his father: "Your son is hopeless." Furious at the summary judgment, Nat's father enrolled him in the Forman School in Litchfield, Conn., a private institution founded in 1930 that specializes in teaching dyslectics. This fall Gove begins his freshman year at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Says he: "I didn't know what my potentials...
...that New York City's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. might suffer heavy losses on loans to the Mexican government, which is having serious financial difficulties, helped drive the Dow down 14 points in the next hour. When the report was denied by the bank, the market staged another furious rally, and the Dow ended the day up 9.14. After the passage of the tax bill on Thursday night, the market exploded again on Friday. The Dow roared ahead 30.72 points, on a volume of 95.9 million shares, despite lingering doubts about the Mexican loan problem...
Gaddafi is equally furious with Yasser Arafat and the central P.L.O. leadership for agreeing to leave Lebanon. "The fact is that right-wing Palestinians and right-wing Arab regimes have been accomplices in bringing about this shameful catastrophe, this disaster that has befallen the civilians [of Lebanon] and this threat to international peace. I believe the current leadership [of the Palestinians] has lost the justification for its existence. Out of this whole situation will perhaps come a new leadership that will be able to undo the disaster in Beirut, one that will be able to take over from...