Word: furiousness
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...must have tested him, but they're not testing us." People understand that there are some things health officials don't know, and others that they can't say. But the failure to protect mailmen as vigilantly as anchormen and Congressmen looked negligent on its face. Postal workers were furious that congressional aides--and even Capitol police dogs--who might have been exposed to the Daschle letter received immediate treatment, while mail handlers were left in the dark for days. But in fact some congressional aides shared their complaint. An aide says neither he nor any of his colleagues were...
...track down leads that could fend off any future attack. That was enough to stretch the bureau to its limits. But then came anthrax and the new responsibility of finding out who sent the contaminated letters and where they got the bacteria. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was furious at the FBI field office last week because it did not inform him for nearly a week after it learned about a suspicious letter received by NBC News. And agents who arrested two men, Ayub Ali Khan and Mohamed Azmath, in connection with the investigation may have overlooked intriguing evidence...
...House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Dick Gephardt looked the worst last week, recessing their chamber early so technicians could sweep their side of the Capitol complex for traces of anthrax. They're still furious at Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who received the anthrax- laced letter but announced that terrorists wouldn't scare the Senate into recessing early. (Hastert and Gephardt insist that Daschle reneged on an agreement the House and Senate leaders had at the beginning of last week to quit early. Daschle insists he never made such an agreement. Just for the record, Senate Minority Leader...
...Records today, New York has generated quite a bit of musical history and tradition. Of course there are the obvious songs and performances: Frank Sinatra belting out "New York, New York," Billy Joel?s warmhearted "New York State of Mind," and Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five?s lyrical tourguide "New York, New York"(the lyrics to that last one: "Ah New York New York big city of dreams/ And everything in New York ain't always what it seems/ You might get fooled if you come from out of town/ But I'm down...
...Arafat has plenty of difficulties of his own. Last Monday his police sparked a furious reaction across the West Bank and Gaza when they shot dead three anti-American demonstrators. Many local leaders of his own Fatah movement on Friday joined the Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad for peaceful marches protesting the U.S. air raids on Afghanistan, and there is little enthusiasm on the Palestinian streets for renewed dialogue with the Israelis...