Word: furiously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...boss recounted the conversation to TIME, he told Card that he would appreciate "whatever help you can give us." In the formal meetings in Sweden, GE never came up. But on June 15, in Warsaw, Bush said he was "concerned" that the Europeans had rejected the merger. Monti was furious--not with Bush, he told TIME, but with those who had sought the President's help. Three days later Monti said he "deplore[d] attempts to...trigger political intervention." And though the case dragged on for two more weeks, the deal was dying a slow death...
...landscape paintings. After pouring himself another drink, he began arguing with his parents, shouting at his mother, Queen Aiswarya, who didn't approve of the Crown Prince's romance with longtime paramour Devyani Rana, 23, the daughter of a former Foreign Minister of Nepal. The Crown Prince was furious that his family wanted him to marry Priyanka Shaha, a princess of royal blood. His sister Shruti scolded him to "stop slurring your words! You're the future King...
...Vegas, they've got a saying about the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee: Never bet against a home-schooled kid. The bookies were right again this year as SEAN CONLEY, 13, and home-schooled in Shakopee, Minn., until earlier this year, survived 16 furious rounds to become the nation's top youth orthographer. Conley, who finished second in last year's bee, went head-to-head with Kristin Hawkins for five rounds before knocking her off with succedaneum, which means "one who succeeds to the place of another." (Those bee people are an ironic lot.) But there are a million...
...features stories on transgenic animals and other biotech wonders. A recent issue highlights Monsanto's herbicide Roundup; another features a girl who took Prozac and "felt like herself again." Since 1999, 4,500 U.S. schools have received the magazine, to little protest. But in Scotland, industry critics are predictably furious. "Biotech companies aren't interested in education," says Matthew Herbert of the protest group Scottish Genetix Action. "They're selling products." Publisher Jeff Davidson replies, "We're trying to encourage scientific literacy and debate...
...read that against the administration's energy plan, which advocates substantially increasing outputs of carbon gases, and it's clear that the administration right now plans to exacerbate rather than reduce the problem of global warming. Then, send President Bush to Europe, which is furious with Washington for withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty, and it's clear that the scientists' report has put him in a very difficult situation...