Word: furiously
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...similar liberties with religious content have drawn highly publicized protest: the 1999 comedy Dogma, for example, spurred the Catholic League to circulate petitions and run New York Times ads calling for a boycott of the movie. The outrage at 1973’s The Exorcist was so widespread and furious that the movie was banned in Great Britain until...
...That question was in the air last week during a furious round of diplomacy set off by the North's Feb. 10 declaration that it has joined the exclusive club of nuclear nations. In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned her counterpart in Beijing, Li Zhaoxing, then hosted foreign ministers from South Korea and Japan. The U.S.'s new point man on the now stalled six-party talks aimed at persuading Kim to abandon nuclear arms?ambassador to Seoul Christopher Hill?flew to Beijing, where he met with a group of senior Chinese officials, including Wang Jiarui, China...
After reading Catastrophe, I spent several sleepless nights worrying about the 600 innocent souls who—in our hypothetical world of risk-benefit analysis—will be swallowed alive by an out-of-control strangelet sometime in the next decade. I was so furious that I started rounding up fellow socially-minded Harvardians to head to RHIC’s Upton, N.Y. home and protest this travesty. In a fearful fury, I decided to check with Harvard’s crack team of experimental high energy physicists to see whether Posner’s calculations are on-target...
After reading Catastrophe, I spent several sleepless nights worrying about the 600 innocent souls who—in our hypothetical world of risk-benefit analysis—will be swallowed alive by an out-of-control strangelet sometime in the next decade. I was so furious that I started rounding up fellow socially-minded Harvardians to head to RHIC’s Upton, N.Y. home and protest this travesty. In a fearful fury, I decided to check with Harvard’s crack team of experimental high energy physicists to see whether Posner’s calculations are on-target...
...Republicans in Congress to get more federal dollars to his state. California at the time received about 79 cents for every dollar it pays in taxes and so far that hasn't changed, even with the country's most famous Republican not named Bush in Sacramento. California Democrats are furious about proposed cuts in Medicaid and several grant programs in the Education Department that will take away more money from the state at time when it still has a huge budget deficit. The 33 Democrats in the House, along with Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, plan on asking Schwarzenegger...