Word: ire
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...particularly upsetting to hear that the Harvard Square Defense Fund has joined the anti-Tommy’s crusade, rather than directing its ire at the bland commercialization of Abercrombie & Fitch or Pacific Sunwear. Undergraduates have lived in Cambridge for hundreds of years, and college life is just as much a part of historic Cambridge as quiet residential areas (which are generally not found so close to Harvard Square...
...easy to come up with myriad reasons why compensation is a can of worms, and would distract the conference from the urgent tasks of remedying and combating racism and allied evils in the 21st century. At the same time, it's also easy to understand the ire of those in the developing world pushing for such a discussion. People robbed, murdered or forced into slavery by the Nazis have been paid compensation by a generation of Germans who had nothing to do with those crimes; why, many Africans and their supporters ask, should the descendants of slavery in the Americas...
...neighbors took shape. Kissinger is a noted scholar of the balance of power. And he is suspicious of attempts to meddle in the internal business of others. In a book that drips with devastating, if understated, contempt for the Clinton Administration and all its workings, nothing provokes Kissinger's ire more than America's "humanitarian" interventions in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo...
...November 1999, privacy advocates and watchdog groups sounded the alarm, saying that for the most part, companies would continue to treat their customers' financial information as if it were corporate property. And as the notices--a billion of them--reached mailboxes this year, the groups turned their ire to companies' skill at obfuscating the matter. "The notices are deceptive, I think intentionally so," says Ed Mierzwinski of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "The consumer's right is buried after pages of gibberish...
...Inciting the ire of the Rangers wasn't the Army's only fashion faux pas. There was the prickly little matter that the Army had contracted out production of some of the 2.6 million berets to China. That didn't sit well with new Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who promptly canceled the order. The Army ended up paying China for 600,000 berets it won't be distributing to the troops. Luckily for burgeoning fashionistas, the extras will likely be sold in Army surplus stores...