Word: furiousness
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...referendum law to hold a popular vote to "protect our country's sovereignty." Many interpreted that to mean Chen was flirting with the idea of a referendum on independence-an action that China has consistently warned will lead to war. The next day, according to one U.S. source, a furious Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, rang the AIT office in Taipei and demanded to know what was going on and why the U.S. had not been forewarned. "[Powell] was not a happy camper," says the source...
...diverse "threat" elements has its own agenda beyond simply ending the U.S. presence. For many of the insurgent groups fighting the Americans right now may be seen as a means to expand their influence in a post-occupation Iraq. That may be why some Iraqi Governing Council members are furious over the deal made by the U.S. to restore calm to Fallujah by essentially handing control of the town to a military force intimately associated with the insurgents on the understanding that this force would prevent attacks on U.S. forces. Plainly, the new Fallujah force has no intention of disarming...
Wisconsin made a furious sprint to the finish to time in at 6:41.47, eventually even passing the Tigers, who finished...
...over the DIAOYU ISLANDS. The Diaoyus?known in Japan as the Senkakus?have been under Japanese control for more than a century, but feuds still rage over who owns them. In March, Chinese nationalists planted a flag on Diaoyu soil; their subsequent arrest by the Japanese navy led to furious demonstrations in Beijing, with Chinese protesters burning Japanese flags. Intensifying the furor, Taiwan two weeks ago said that it's adding the Diaoyus to official maps of its own territory. And the Diaoyus aren't the only islands of dubious value to excite territorial passions. Everyone, it seems, wants...
...Antananarivo looks to be losing the battle against human encroachment. Engulfed by the capital's urban sprawl, the SNGF's small, scruffy patch of land has row upon row of seedlings, some of them species facing extinction in the wild. They seem too delicate to make it through the furious tropical storms common in the island's November-to-April rainy season. But SNGF director Guy Rakotondranony insists they will survive - they have to. The seedlings are "our hope for the future," he says, "our ecological insurance policy." Isolated for eons in the Indian Ocean, Madagascar has evolved such...