Word: furiousness
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...addition to brandishing Peterson's transgressions, the Soviets have coolly demanded indemnification for damage done to their equipment by American security officers who had discovered KGB devices bugging the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Furious about the U.S. discovery of the eavesdropping equipment and subsequent news stories about it, the Soviets countered by declaring that the Americans had actually been using the apparatus to spy on the Russians...
...tutor in the History Department said last week that several Department members were "furious" after the Department handed down a decision giving five seniors failing grades on their general examinations...
...trying to encourage members of their faction to defect to Nkomo's camp. The allegations were passed on to Tanzania's Nyerere, who has tried assiduously to avoid such a split within the Patriotic Front. Thus Nyerere's reaction to Rowland's maneuvering was predictably furious...
...nation is caught in an economic bind. Unemployment is unacceptably high, yet efforts to bring it down by stimulating the domestic economy through tax cuts and heavier government spending might pump up already high inflation. Selling more goods to other industrial nations is no answer, either. It leads to furious charges that the exporting country is destroying jobs in the importing nation; witness the anger in the U.S. and Europe against Japan's export prowess...
...foreign policy. Despite some gaffes, Carter has taken essentially the right line on the Middle East. But he has had little support from Congress, and his sensible plane package-the proposal to sell advanced fighters to the Saudis and Egyptians as well as to the Israelis-is running into furious opposition, marshaled by powerful and relentless Israeli political pressure. In the relatively minor but troublesome tribal quarrel over Cyprus, Carter seems sound in wanting to lift the arms embargo on Turkey. But Congress is mesmerized by the tiny Greek lobby. Carter certainly mishandled the neutron bomb affair, not least...