Word: furiously
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...private, Bush is said by dozens of friends to be table-pounding furious about the damage a handful of CEOs have done to Americans' confidence in the economy, not to mention the billions of dollars they stole from shareholders. But when Bush speaks in public, his comments about the economy have had their own anemic quality and have often been halting or confusing. When he tried to take the volume up, he compared the CEOs to the terrorists, which wasn't quite right either. At one point he implied the corporate problems were not as important as the simple matter...
...Sept. 11, Sana and her mother watched the little TV by the bed in numb horror. First the dissolving towers, then the furious retaliation: Muslim-owned shops in the U.S. being trashed and burned, Arab-looking cabbies dragged from their cars and beaten. "We were both in shock," recalls Sana, who telephoned her brother, a student in Ann Arbor, Mich., that first night to make sure...
...bumping off moderate Republican incumbents in safe seats and effectively handing the spot to a Democrat. Its goal is to "improve the gene pool of Republicans in Congress" by electing more Reagan Republicans, says Club President Stephen Moore. Desperate to protect all their incumbents, House Republican leaders are privately furious with the genetic engineering plan. "The Club has lost track of Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment - not to speak ill of fellow Republicans," gripes Main Street Executive Director Sarah Chamberlain Resnick. But even GOP presidents tend to ignore that commandment when it's convenient. President George W. Bush, for example...
...BOURSE Fast And Furious Many European companies were irked by new rules requiring ceos of U.S.-listed firms to swear by their financial reports. But Germany's Porsche protested loudest, shelving plans for a New York Stock Exchange listing...
...difficulty of controlling his rage as he talks about Haitham. He will not say what he would have told his son, had the boy confessed his plans to his father. "Some feelings I keep to myself," he growls. His son-in-law whispers later that Abu Shouqa is furious with Haitham for the mission he undertook, but the father, he adds, can't admit it now that people acclaim the boy as a shahid, a martyr...