Word: ire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laing also vented his ire at American dairy processing. "I can't get any milk here--it's all homogenized and pasteurized. It's no wonder it lasts forever, because it's already been killed," Laising wryly noted...
...purge was one of Yugoslavia's most able advocates of democratization, Marko Nikezić, 51, the chairman of the Serbian Communist Party. Accused of excessive liberalism, the burly, crew-cut Serbian had, in fact, attempted to dampen Serbian national fervor. He reportedly aroused Tito's ire last year by warning him against rising Croat separatism before Tito was ready to acknowledge it. Other prominent Serbs who resigned under pressure were Serbian Central Committee Secretary Latinka Perović and Foreign Minister Mirko Tepavac. The premier of Slovenia, Stane Kavćić, and a Serbian member of the Presidium...
...part of the American experience. While heavily biased toward landed interests, the framers of the Constitution rejected as both impossible and unnecessary the idea that all classes of citizens should have their own representatives in Congress. They opted instead for elected representatives, who were subject to the ire or approval of a variety of individual voters. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist: "It is said to be necessary, that all classes of citizens should have some of their own number in the representative body, in order that their feelings and interests may be the better understood and attended...
...facilities for more than two-thirds of the 195 events* on the Olympic agenda. Three of the largest venues are partially under one "roof," an expansive sweep of acrylic glass that drapes over the landscape like a free-form circus tent. Though striking, the roof has roused the ire of many Munich taxpayers because its cost soared from the original estimate of $3.5 million to $63 million. The overall Olympic bill of $750 million, or more than three times what Mexico City spent on the 1968 Games, caused some unsporting types to start selling posters showing the dachshund Waldi...
Heath's hopes-and British labor's ire-focus on the sweeping Industrial Relations Act, which Heath's Tory majority pushed through Parliament last August. The act is the first serious attempt in 66 years to reform British union-management relations; among other things, it established a special Industrial Relations Court empowered to rule on labor disputes. But rightly or wrongly, many British workingmen regard the new court as a basically anti-labor "political court...