Word: ire
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...past few weeks, all this has become controversial. Flash orders - a feature offered by some exchanges that allows high-volume traders the advantage of posting orders for up to half a second and then removing them - have drawn the ire of the authorities. Related revelations about the high-speed, almost fully computerized nature of modern stock markets have occasioned no small amount of fear and loathing. (See pictures of a Madoff family album...
...threat: home nurse visits to low-income parents. "We are setting up a situation where Obama will be invading parent's [sic] homes and taking away their children," one columnist warned on RightWingNews.com. That something as harmless as home nurse visits has become a target of conservative ire is surprising because of its longstanding popularity with both Republican and Democratic lawmakers. But health reform advocates are scratching their heads at the attacks for another reason: funding for home nurse visits was largely included in health reform legislation to accommodate social conservatives...
...Cambridge police department after Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested there, sparking a national debate about race in America. Though the discourse about the arrest, its aftermath, and the realities of race problems in the country spread far and wide, Obama thought that a simple gesture might soothe the ire of the affair—an invitation to relax over a beer...
...zones ranging from Haiti to Somalia, is critical of NGOs, especially when they’re charged with distributing urgently needed humanitarian aid. After publishing her latest book, With Friends Like These: Behind the Scenes of the Emergency Aid Industry, Polman said she’s earned the ire of some of these organizations. It makes sense why: She advocates completely cutting off funding to NGOs that distribute humanitarian aid, as the aid they distribute too often falls into the hands of the perpetrators—not the victims—of violence...
...With the U.S. being the focus of the bulk of Iran's ire over the past three decades, why is Iran picking on the U.K. now? Long a hot spot for anti-regime Iranian opposition and a font of support for human rights and reform in Iran, Britain has enjoyed little favor from Tehran in recent years. The launch in January of a BBC Persian-language TV service, thanks largely to funds from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has further riled authorities in Iran. The news channel - beaming images of the recent protests via satellite from London, despite efforts...