Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States, having been burned in Somalia, was desperate to stay out of Rwanda. How to manage that? By pettifogging. By arguing about semantics: the Clinton way. His Administration, pressed to honor the 1948 Genocide Convention (not to mention human decency) by intervening, quibbled at a furious rate about the meaning of the word genocide. Madeleine Albright, who was Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. in 1994, temporized as the death toll in Rwanda climbed into the hundreds of thousands. It was, as Gourevitch writes, "the absolute low point of her career as a stateswoman." What works first for tragedy...
...done. (If that were found to be untrue, she could face perjury charges.) But she would pose a grave danger to Starr if it were proved he had encouraged her to brief the Jones team, something both Starr's allies and Tripp's lawyers deny. His prosecutors were furious, says a source close to Tripp, when they learned of her meeting with the Jones lawyers several hours after the Lewinsky sting...
...Lewinsky fell short in her dalliance with power, it might be because she was aiming so high. Furious about her expulsion to the Pentagon, the young woman who'd joked about "presidential kneepads" even before she hit town hinted that she'd expose their affair if Clinton didn't rehire her at the White House. Later, when it came time to leave the city, she stipulated that bigwig Vernon Jordan be the one to help her in her job search and presented a rather intimidating list of desired positions. "Assistant producer at any of the networks," her not-so-modest...
Starting with the downbeat of the first movement of the symphony, though, critique becomes superfluous. Under Cortese's expert, if nervous, direction, the orchestra sailed confidently through the misty opening, the playful hints of the "Ode to Joy" theme to come, the fiery and furious scherzo, the graceful sweeping themes in the violins, the lyrical woodwind solos. The opening movements were filled with as much mystery and grandeur and promise as they ever were...
Coincidence? That depends on whom you ask. Pixar head Steven Jobs was said to be "furious" when he found out that DreamWorks was working on a movie about ants. It is an open secret that in background sessions with reporters at numerous publications, he has been complaining that Katzenberg swiped the idea for Antz on his way out the door from Disney in 1994 or sometime thereafter. Katzenberg's camp angrily denies that he ever heard of the Bugs project while at Disney and says that in fact the idea for Antz was pitched to Katzenberg by a DreamWorks executive...