Word: ire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year stint as dean of the School of Public Health. Hiatt pioneered the school's effort to broaden its focus beyond traditional research for cures to a policy-oriented examination of the social and economic consequences of diseases. That approach had the blessing of President Bok, but raised the ire of the senior faculty, two-thirds of whom signed a petition in 1978 asking the dean to step down. Hiatt, who will teach at the Med School, said his resignation had nothing to do with the storm, but rather a feeling that a decade was long enough...
...their system. But at the same time, while I may be a hard bargainer, they would much rather have me than the Communists. They may not love me, but they are stuck. I am realistic enough to know that you cannot demand removal of U.S. bases without encountering the ire...
WHAT'S ALL the fuss? you ask. Can't a writer paint pictures of the society he sees, even the hypersensitive sex-and-social-life carnival, without failing prey to political ire? If everywhere Frederick Barthelme looks, he sees women who terrify him--women taking the sexual initiative, women not concerned whether or not they are at a particular moment wanted, something very much like that must be happening around...
...leak under high-pressure operation, which eventually led to the near fatal engine seizures. Alarmingly, the jet had passed a preflight inspection test that uses air pressure to force the engines up to starting speed precisely to ensure that the oil pressure is normal. Making the en ire incident even more painful from Eastern management's point of view was the fact that the company had recently granted a 32% pay in crease to members of the machinists' union, who are responsible for engine maintenance...
...Confederate flag as a university symbol has drawn the ire of Black students for some time. A group of them recently drew up a list of demands that included banning use of the flag...