Word: ire
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Paying By The Rules The movement to clean up bad corporate behavior in the U.S. has finally run into a business backlash. The chief target of corporate ire is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a law passed in 2002 that imposed tough new rules for how public companies - including many European ones - report their numbers. New provisions of the law continue to kick in, which might explain some curiously timed events. (Does the outgoing CFO of Linux peddler Red Hat really want to spend more time with his family?) Partly because of the stringent law, fewer foreign firms are listing shares...
...ambiguous reinvocation of a “sensitive” research category has drawn particular ire from scientists...
...word is used as freely as punctuation) and view of history (he's clearly no monarchist), but they won't see a livelier, more cantankerous production this year. Barker has said that his plays are not histories but mirrors to contemporary society. And one senses that much of his ire was reserved for Margaret Thatcher, whose reforms were transforming Britain at the time this play was written. "I hate you," Devonshire tells the King, who replies that hatred is "only passion back to front." Victory is a brilliant backhander of a play, with Davis providing the passion...
...response to the insurgencies is that there is no Iraqi leadership of significant standing among either the Sunni or the Shia speaking unambiguously in support of the Coalition's goals. Some on the Iraqi Governing Council have denounced Moqtada and his calls for violence. Others have focused their ire at Coalition responses. But the U.S. long ago recognized that the IGC has limited support among Iraqis. Far more important than the Coalition military effort eliminate the Mahdi militia will be the stance adopted by Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Even if Moqtada himself may not accept Sistani's appeals for restraint...
...Citing Executive privilege as a member of the President's staff, Rice said she could not appear under oath in a public session but would be happy to talk to the commission privately, as she already has done for four hours. Perhaps inevitably, given the manifold outlets for her ire, not everything Rice said was internally consistent. At one time she claimed that most of Clarke's ideas for combatting al-Qaeda had been tried and rejected under Clinton, while at another she insisted that the Bush team had acted on them. And Rice sometimes contradicted--or was contradicted...