Word: furiousness
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...makes no difference if you see their furious scurryings existentially or traditionally. You must impute some larger resonance to them. Otherwise you are left with only a twittering among the teacups?or a vanity fair...
...Last year I wrote about ?The Madness of George W.,? a ragged farce that took potshots at the Bush Administration and bragged that it was ?kept bang-up-to-the-minute with daily re-writes churned out at a furious pace by the writer.? This week at the National Theatre, David Hare?s play ?Stuff Happens? begins previews. It?s about George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, whose quote (?Stuff happens? and it?s untidy, and freedom?s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.?) inspired the play?s title. Like...
...east. At a total projected cost of $2.2 billion for the smelter and its hydropower system, it's the biggest construction project in Iceland's history - and it's taking shape in one of Europe's last remaining large wilderness areas. Little wonder that it has sparked a furious debate over whether economic growth can co-exist with environmental care in this place that few people ever visit. "The highlands have a great value in themselves, especially because Europe is so densely populated," says Arni Finnsson, chairman of the Iceland Nature Conservation Association, a leading opponent...
...have profited by importing cement using dubious import licenses and selling it to Israeli contractors building the wall. Try to imagine officials in the Kennedy Administration selling cement to East Berlin construction firms back in 1961 and you'll get an idea of why ordinary Palestinians are so furious about the allegations. Hassan Khreisheh, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, tells Time he handed a report on the cement deals to Arafat's attorney general and has recommended prosecutions. According to a copy of the report obtained by Time, well-connected companies won import licenses for 420,000 tons...
...backing up his tough talk with a strategy to augment the company's design and technology prowess. For instance, LG.Philips announced in March it would invest $22 billion with its suppliers in new flat-screen production facilities over the next 10 years. Kim is recruiting engineers at a furious pace, aiming to increase research-and-development teams to 60% of LG's total payroll by 2005, from 40% today. One recent afternoon at the LG Electronics Corporate Design Center in Seoul, young Koreans in jeans and hip black sweaters were packing up plastic models of computer monitors and microwaves...