Word: ire
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...regarding the general grading practices of Harvard teaching fellows and Faculty helped bring about greater outside scrutiny of grade inflation at Harvard. Mansfield’s suggestion that the admission of larger numbers of black students in the 1970s contributed to or initiated this trend earned him the ire of the Black Students’ Association, but his vocal criticism of the number of high grades earned by Harvard students helped draw national media coverage to the numbers of undergraduates in the United States who earn high grades. The University revealed that 91 percent of last year?...
Sullivan’s ire was aroused Saturday night when he ran into a bottle-neck on a side street and had to back out. “Students’ cars were double parked in streets around the Harvard Square area. What if fire breaks out some night in those dormitories? A fire truck could never get to it,” he stated...
...channeling the extremists' energies towards India. But even if he were doing his level best to stop such attacks, Pakistan's militant Islamists may well learn from the experience of their Palestinian cousins. Hamas and Islamic Jihad long ago learned that attacking Yasser Arafat directly would earn them the ire of the Palestinian people, and that the best way to challenge Arafat was to launch terror attacks against the common enemy - that way they could simultaneously undermine Arafat's negotiating strategy and maintain popular support. In Pakistan, too, elements (which may include military and intelligence officers) opposed to Musharraf...
...Hong Kong, a series of questionable backroom transactions?including the proposed Boto deal?has so raised the ire of stock owners that Andrew Sheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, was forced to respond. His open letter to investors offered no succor. Sheng wrote ". . . if it is purely an issue of competence or a history of bad decision making impacting on value, and the rules have not been violated, the ultimate practical remedy for investors may be to sell...
...management team. In 1991, following Michelin's acquisition of the American tire company Uniroyal-Goodrich, he was named ceo of Michelin's U.S. unit. He returned to the company's Clermont-Ferrand headquarters in 1993 to prepare for the succession. Just months later Edouard faced media and political ire when, on the same day Michelin revealed a quarterly profit increase of 20%, it announced restructuring plans that would eliminate 7,500 European jobs. "Those painful moves anticipated changes that have occurred and reflected our refusal to wait until things get bad to react," Edouard says. "But the reaction indicated...