Word: ire
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GETTING AMERICA TO KNOW TOM DELAY House Democrats have been gunning for Majority Leader Tom DeLay long before he really drew their ire by leading a redistricting effort in Texas that cost four Dems their seats in Congress. They took solace last month when House Republicans backed away from a plan that would have changed their rules on letting a member keep his leadership post if he was indicted on criminal charges, a deal that had been put in place specifically for DeLay, who is under investigation for alleged campaign finance law violations. But DeLay had his revenge when...
...that Iran seeks nuclear weapons, and Moscow agreed to move ahead with delivering the nuclear fuel for Tehran's reactors despite Washington's opposition. And in case you missed the message, Russia has also agreed to supply advanced surface-to-air missiles to Syria, the latest focus of U.S. ire in the Middle East - again in defiance of Washington's stated wishes...
...this university. The “crisis of leadership” one tenured faculty member decried is pure political capitalization. The continuous reiteration of the two-word phrase “innate differences” does not seem to be the only object of the faculty’s ire. It has, however, served to create an opportunity to drop a stack of complaints on the desk of the president. The solely negative remarks insinuating accusations of racism, sexism, and every other “ism” on the planet would potentially leave us to ponder if Summers...
Summers’ remarks last month thrust gender concerns into the national spotlight and have earned Summers the ire of many Faculty members, who see his remarks as a setback in their struggle for equality...
Faculty members spared no words in articulating their loss of faith in the president, who has never drawn such ire from professors during his three-and-a-half year tenure...