Word: ire
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Bennett has never been a favorite with higher education leaders for his often fruitless attempts to cut federal funding of student aid. The former education secretary further aroused their ire earlier this year when he attacked Stanford University for yielding to the demands of vocal student groups that it change its Western Culture program to a course emphasizing non-Western cultures and ideas...
...preparation, the French-made abortion pill called RU 486 (trade name Mifepristone). Antiabortionists in the U.S. and abroad lost no time protesting. The Washington-based National Right to Life Committee last week threatened to boycott products of any U.S. firm that attempts to market such pills. The group's ire was further raised when the New England Journal of Medicine last week gave high marks to another abortion drug, epostane, developed by Sterling Drug Inc. "These pills kill unborn babies," said committee spokesman Richard Glasow. "They will increase the use of abortion as a method of birth control...
...success has raised the ire of many inthe new markets. In the Philippines, a classaction suit has been filed against U.S. tobaccocompanies that advertise on television, chargingthat they have not allowed Filipino children thesame protection American children have againstexposure to TV smoking...
...Jackson draws the ire of Biblical Scoreboard because he is "anti-military superiority," anti-Star Wars, and he's a liberal. Quoting an unnamed political analyst, Biblical Scoreboard says Jackson would be "the first Marxist President of the United States...
...simpler importunities: a "pleasing request to sit on the pavement for two days outside the Russian Embassy," or invitations to memorial services for departed rivals (though these are "more satisfying than learning they have published a new book"). It is the more drearily typical epistles that raise his ire and ironic spirit...