Word: ire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which Marian Robinson, a visiting American professor who happens to be a cousin of Nancy Reagan's, read a citation denouncing the President's nuclear arms policies; three holders of honorary doctorates returned their degrees in protest. The demonstrators were peaceful, and they aimed their Irish ire at the Administration's foreign policy rather than at America. When someone set fire to a U.S. flag, other protesters rushed to put out the blaze and apologized to American reporters. "Our affection for America is as deep as ever," explained John Murphy, a former member of the Irish Senate...
...Cinema, a group of movie theaters, to come to its aid by buying some of its preferred stock, and offered General Cinema one of its "crown jewels": the profitable Waldenbooks chain. Another part of the firm's strategy, buying back its own shares of common stock, raised the ire of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC announced last week that it would sue Carter Hawley Hale for violating securities laws...
...writings by Nobel laureates always cause a stir of comment, but this novel by Author William Golding arrives in the slip stream of controversy as well. The decision last fall by the Swedish Academy to confer the 1983 prize on Golding aroused unusual ire; one academy member was angered enough to make an unprecedented public complaint. Critics quickly chimed in, charging that Golding's work was not up to Nobel standards and that a number of worthier candidates had been overlooked. Defenders countered with accusations of literary elitism and sour gripes...
Such deductible investments have become a headache for the Internal Revenue Service. In all, they represent investments of an estimated $50 billion and can cost the Government billions of dollars annually in uncollected revenue. They help swell the federal deficit, enrich tax lawyers and arouse the ire and envy of less-well-to-do taxpayers. Asked what his four biggest problems are, Roscoe L. Egger Jr., commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is fond of saying, "Tax shelters, tax shelters, tax shelters and tax shelters...
Personalities always cause debate, and in 1983 former Secretary of the Interior James Watt, ex-National Security Adviser (and Watt's replacement at the Department of Interior) William Clark and Comedian Joan Rivers ("tasteless and cruel") drew the public's ire. Yet readers rose to defend celebrities they deemed badly treated-such as the late anchorwoman Jessica Savitch and Elizabeth Taylor ("Why do journalists feel compelled to constantly snipe at Elizabeth Taylor's weight?" chided...