Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roughly 10% of the correspondents, however, were furious with Milken for his confessed criminal activities, which included the manipulation of securities prices. John Weigel, a financial consultant in Costa Mesa, Calif., called Milken "merely a financial extortionist on a Capone-esque scale that demands punishment on a similar scale." Concurred Miami attorney J.B. Spence: "It will be incredibly disheartening to the American public if the sentence is a mere slap on the wrist...
Moving right along, the Crimson proceeded to dictate, dominate and control the next 70 minutes. The entire offensive line played fast and furious, frustrated only in its inability to nab a tying goal. In her first collegiate game, freshman Laurie Uustal put away the only Crimson goal early in the second half. It wasn't a neat and tidy, Sports Illustrated cover-photo goal, but it did eliminate the deficit...
...forces required to perform it are almost Mahlerian: a 31-member band with full complements of brass and saxes, plus such normally nonswinging instruments as piccolo and contrabass clarinet. The work was played once in the composer's lifetime, but in a truncated form that left him despairing and furious. The score was put aside, abandoned...
...logic of power aside, there is no certainty what choice Saddam will make. British diplomats reported last week that Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat had held talks with Saddam in Baghdad. According to the report, Arafat found Saddam nervous and often confused during their discussions. He was particularly furious at the personal attacks on him by Bush and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This mood may account for Saddam's strange appearance on television as the misunderstood statesman. If his judgment is that poor, he may yet turn his country into a battlefield...
Peter (Blackheart) Savino, an associate of the Genovese crime family, was a man with a mission and a machine gun. As he drove down Scott Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was furious with PECO Corp., a window manufacturer. The company, which had ties to the Genovese family, had started to succumb to overtures by the smaller Lucchese clan. This was cutting Savino out of his kickbacks. So with the blessing of family higher-ups, Savino and a fellow gangster stormed the company's storage yard, pulled out their machine guns and blew to bits more than 200 windows that were...