Word: ire
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Hanson, who has drawn the ire of Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz for declining to debate him in Winthrop House, said last night he believed that Harvard should pressure Israel to withdraw from occupied territories through withholding investments...
...union office and what used to be the "Nike School," where the sneaker company ran a supplemental education program. They intend to stay there, says Ahmad Saukani, the 35-year-old vice chairman of the company union, until they get fair severance pay. The target of the workers ire is PT Doson Indonesia, the company that ran the factory as a supplier for Nike. Still, about 2,000 workers protested outside of Nike's Jakarta headquarters in August...
...seven years - otherwise France and Germany would have vetoed enlargement to protect their farmers and budgets. Free movement of new members' citizens to work and live throughout the E.U. will be restricted for at least five years, to make sure politicians in the core countries don't face voter ire about unrestrained immigration. Ludek Zahradnícek, a Czech official in charge of selling enlargement, realizes his compatriots "take this as discrimination and it could be understood this way." His counterargument: "At least 25% subsidies are better than zero subsidies." But second-class status still rankles. And then there...
...understand oppression, especially the kind that can open a door and say, 'Well, you can leave any time you like.' " Mullan's harsh depiction of life at the infamous Magdalenes, the last of which closed in 1996, has earned him not only plaudits but also the ire of the Catholic Church. Mullan, 42, who describes himself as a "once-idealistic Catholic," is unrepentant. Though its central characters are composites, he insists the film is an accurate depiction of life in institutions where young women were consigned to the care of often abusive nuns. "What really astonishes me about the church...
...government's efforts to oust the Iraqi leader? There are no clear answers. Ritter has never lacked for personal courage, nor for outrage. First he directed that outrage and courage against the Iraqi officials sandbagging his inspection efforts in Iraq; then, on his return the focus of his ire became the Clinton administration which he accused of betraying UNSCOM and ignoring the dangers of failure to force Saddam to comply with the letter of the law. But soon, he was also accusing the U.S. of manipulating the inspection regime for espionage purposes - a charge often made by the Iraqis...