Word: ire
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Foreign influence on United States universities also was a subject of discussion at January 1992 congressional hearings on the subject of indirect costs for research funding Scandalous over-billing for research overhead at institutions like Stanford University drew the ire of congressional investigators, and one of the most irritating things was that some foreign governments were billed less, or weren't billed at all for the indirect costs, or overhead costs, associated with their research grants...
After I switched from news to sports my sophomore year, I learned pretty quickly that honesty and good wit may win you the respect of other journalists, but they bring you the ire of just about everyone else. And at a school with such a tightly knit (some would say incestuous) athletic program, that's a lot of enemies who know you by name and nothing else...
...spring of 1991, Bridget I. Kerrigan '91 grabbed national headlines--and the ire of many students--when she hung a confederate flag from her Kirkland House window. National columnists focused on Kerrigan's assertion of free expression, and used her example to expound against the tyranny of political correctness...
...Dellums' military posture certainly hasn't hurt him in his district, which he last won by 72% of the vote. That is partly because he succeeded Aspin as Armed Services Committee chairman and voters believed he would be in a position to prevent any of the Pentagon's ire from hitting close to home. "He's always been antimilitary, but right now we're looking at him as one of our last hopes to save the installation," says Mark Hutchings, a fire inspector at the Mare Island Naval Complex shipyard in Vallejo...
...this outspoken academic certainly isn't the only public figure to raise students' ire recently. In February, D. Khallid Muhammad, who appeared at a conference sponsored by the African American Cultural Society, made inflammatory statements about gays, Jews, whites, and Black Harvard faculty members. And last year, Leonard Jeffries, a City University of New York professor known for his racist views, was invited to speak in Sanders Theatre...