Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scandals. In recent weeks the Health and Welfare Ministry admitted that from 1983 to 1985 its officials let Japanese pharmaceutical companies sell blood products even after they knew they might be tainted with hiv. So far, an estimated 400 hemophiliacs have died. And since last year, taxpayers have been furious with officials at the powerful Ministry of Finance because it wants to start paying out billions of dollars in tax revenues to rescue Japan's banking system, which the same bureaucrats once called the world's safest. The ministry used to be far and away the most powerful organization...
...this riff on This Island Earth--the whole thing, ruthlessly pared down, lasts only 73 minutes--but watching it in a crowd offers a different high. As the gags pile up remorselessly, and the viewer strains to keep up with the story line and the cutting subtext, a furious but benign apnea takes hold. You can't enjoy a good long laugh because you'll miss too much; you must let it explode in short blasts. It's the happiest form of internal injury...
...news of greater problems surface, outraged citizens may stall any action. The public is furious at the Ministry of Finance, which in the past was the most powerful and feared institution in the country. Two senior finance officials were disgraced by revelations that shady business figures plied them with parties, call girls and big personal loans...
Johnson & Johnson was furious not just about the letter but also at the fact that the newspapers published it without labeling it advertising. Worse, in J&J's view, at the bottom of the ad was a message that Whitehall-Robins Healthcare was underwriting the reprint "as a public service." Not exactly, since it's the unit of American Home Products that makes Advil...
...since the Clinton Administration last year floated a 4% federal gaming tax--only to drop it after 31 Governors protested. In the past three years gambling has become one of the top five industries donating to political campaigns. That money no doubt ensures some entree now that the casinos' furious lobbying campaign against the federal panel--led by former G.O.P. chairman Frank Fahrenkopf--is turned on the U.S. Senate...