Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...About 1,300 Orangemen, an Ulster Protestant order, were given permission to march down the disputed Garvaghy Road to the beat of a single drum, along the same route they have followed for the past 189 years to commemorate the 17th century victories over the Catholics. "The Catholics were furious," Gibson says. "There were violent confrontations between demonstrators trying to block the routes and police, who lashed out on all sides with batons." Within an hour, she reports, rioters in the town of Portadown torched dozens of cars and many Catholic residents fled the area. The violence, reminiscent of Ireland...
...snide action fare because of its cheerful attitude. And at least heroic speeches are better than the facetious emotion of Schwarzeneggar's thumping his chest in "Eraser" and declaring that the real "you" is "in heah." Here is one movie that, with "Forrest Gump" innocence, will not make you furious when its box office gross exceeds the GNP of one or two small nations...
Then came the exodus of more than 1 million Rwandans in 1994. Militiamen and members of the defeated Hutu army, furious at losing their war with Tutsi rebels, soon joined with their Zairian Hutu brethren and began killing Zairian Tutsi. Their objective, observers believe, is a "Hutuland" on Zairian soil that would provide a safe haven for refugees and a base for ongoing armed incursions into Rwanda...
...allies are furious at what they see as unwarranted meddling in foreign trade. Canada's Minister of Foreign Trade, Arthur Eggleton, told TIME, "The U.S. is doing nothing more than using Helms-Burton to shoot at its friends instead of its enemies." Last week Canada made clear that it would soon retaliate against the U.S. for Helms-Burton. Mexico's President, on a state visit to Canada, denounced it, as did Italy's Prime Minister at a meeting with Clinton in Washington...
...also been faced with crises he never could have envisioned--including a faculty outraged over benefits cuts, top aides resigning out of frustration and students furious over his handling of the Reserve Officer Training Corps. At the same time, Harvard has been in the news like never before--for Gina Grant, the Dunster murder-suicide, the Unabomber and Rudenstine's own battle with exhaustion...