Word: ire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this month, he scolded his staff for holding a meeting at a ryotei -- an expensive, traditional Japanese restaurant often used by Diet members to broker deals. From now on, he told them, use less pricey hotels. He avoids wearing his legislator's lapel pin, though this has incurred the ire of the country's 10,000 pinmakers. "I never liked that sense of boasting, 'I'm a Diet man,' " says Tokyo housewife Seiko Arai. "The times were waiting for an up-to-date leader like this...
Cambridge City Councillor William H. Walsh drew the ire of other councillors by using a legal technicality to prevent the council from discussing the issues on its agenda yesterday, as he continues to push his rent control campaign a week before the election...
...Britain and China had only "weeks rather than months" to map out something resembling a democratic future for the colony, Patten threatened to push ahead unilaterally with political reform, specifically his effort to broaden, however modestly, Hong Kong's electoral base, a program that has drawn Beijing's unrelenting ire. In urging the legislators to fight for reform, Patten asked, "If we are not prepared to stand up for Hong Kong's way of life today, what chance of doing so tomorrow...
Rassen's decisions, which he says will develop a more loyal listenership, have drawn the ire of a many of his current and former co-workers at the station who criticize him for acting unilaterally and for cutting what they think were the most popular formats. They have also prompted several deejays to leave the station...
...Harvard department is dying for the first time in almost four decades, drawing the expected ire of students and faculty while generating uncertainty about the future of a discipline that has existed for just 36 years...