Word: ire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief era of good feeling that ensued lasted less than a day. Just before the start of a 7:30 meeting the following morning, Jobs handed Sculley a letter stating that several Apple employees were leaving to work for his new company. Apple executives could not contain their ire, shouting "liar" and "deceitful" during the meeting. The outcry convinced Jobs that he could no longer stay at the company...
Ziff Corp. calls CBS's charges "absurd." Says William Ziff Jr., chairman of the company's executive committee: "I am appalled. I am angry." The courts will decide whose ire is justified...
...incomplete electronic mosaic drew the ire of one American viewer. During an interview on ABC's Nightline, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger criticized the "absolutely one-sided account of the correspondents." Said Kissinger: "There is something demeaning about having three networks covering a victory parade over the United States in the city of the country where the victory was achieved...
...reporting efforts on the men's hockey team. Since it is hard enough for a team to win in an away contest, it is unfortunate that Mr. Wurf fanned the competitive fires of Harvard's opponents with his article on Duluth. I can understand. Hockey Coach Cleary's reported ire at Mr. Wurf, this outsider, in his efforts to report the news, instead created it, and in doing so he provided an unfortunate distraction from the team's primary goal of beating M-D in hockey game...
...enduring one of its most serious political challenges in 56 years. The De la Madrid administration, which came to office in 1982 amid promises of "moral renovation," is facing a popular backlash, particularly in the north, where riots against alleged P.R.I. election fraud have sputtered for weeks. Increasingly, Mexican ire is directed at a P.R.I. legacy of corruption, graft and lawlessness that De la Madrid's new broom has been unable to sweep away. Says Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego: "This is the most important and crucial...