Word: furiousness
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...yachtsman and owner of WTCG, promised last week to introduce some more appealing programs: original children's shows, reruns of highly rated public-broadcasting programs (e.g., The Ascent of Man) that may not have been seen in some areas that cable now reaches. Superstations, however, are running into furious opposition from conventional broadcasters and their allies in the sports and entertainment worlds. MCA-Universal and Paramount are balking at selling any of their TV shows to Turner's Atlanta station, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are threatening to withdraw broadcast rights from KTTV if that Los Angeles station...
Alexander went off the first tee late in the day paired with Henley and Zito in a threesome in which the birdies came fast and furious. Alexander went out in a two-over 37, sweeping through the first seven holes in even par. A rash of three putts undid him coming in. Alexander, who hits a golf ball prodigious lengths, was out-driving Henley and hitting at least two clubs less than Zito on every hole...
...Faculty choose the members, with competing slates if Faculty members desired. Thomson and Levin say they tried to insejt a clause in the report that would mandate the election of Faculy Council members. They were overruled by the committee, only to be upheld by the Faculty after furious canvassing by both the liberal and conservative caucuses...
...Still furious with the Chinese for launching an invasion of its northern provinces two months ago, Viet Nam charged that both the political and economic retrenchment were the result of losses suffered in the war. Western analysts had a simpler and more plausible explanation. They tended to accept at face value Peking's claims that there had indeed been too much emphasis on heavy industry in the original development plans. Sinologists were surprised, too, by the re-emergence into public life of two old foes of Deng: Secret Police Chief Wang Dongxing (Wang Tung-hsing) and former Peking Mayor...
...chicken on a June bug. They say they have more influence on Congress than the American people have. I say, let's prove them wrong." Ultimately, oilmen may find it easier to live with a tax that they do not want than a fire-breathing President and a furious public...