Word: ire
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That a particular group of Americans may be disproportionately affected by Clinton's plan raises the ire of many Americans. It's weirdly interesting to note that sacrifice, the "extreme measures" needed to rectify a fiscal problem, must be perceived as fair and equal treatment of all people. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville wrote that the Americans value their equality more than anything else; Americans would sooner be treated equally as slaves than they would tolerate any disparity in the way in which they are treated by their government...
Much of Tracy's ire was directed at his counterpart in the Catamount net, sophomore Christian Soucy, the more heralded of two excellent netminders...
...grand reasons why European integration makes sense are still there. But try telling that to angry, suspicious citizens, whose object of ire is the virtually unreadable Maastricht treaty, negotiated last December by the 12 nations of the European Community, which lays out a complex blueprint for the greater economic and political union of the Continent -- a plan that would take Europe far beyond the free-trade zone that goes into effect in January, to a single currency and common foreign and defense policies. The Danes' + refusal to approve Maastricht last June ignited simmering popular resentment, and France's razor-thin...
...city. On account of its lively plebian past, the city has always had something of a chip on its shoulder towards any centralized authority. And during much of the past 500 years, or ever since Phillip II established Madrid as the Spanish capital, much of Barcelona's ire has been directed towards her sister city sprawling in the middle of the peninsula's arid plains...
...network of family and family retainers also piled on. Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Perot's "paranoia knows no bounds," while drug czar Bob Martinez labeled Perot "not fit to be President." Casting off her grandmotherly pose, Barbara Bush called Perot's behavior "bizarre" and traced his ire at her husband to the fact that Bush had spurned a job offer from Perot 25 years ago. By the end of the week, Vice President Dan Quayle was referring to the diminutive Texan as "Inspector Perot...