Word: ire
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...schedule, and keep Gore's political radar finely tuned at all times. But he does carry one piece of baggage: His ardent and very effective muscling of the China trade bill through the House last month. Gore did some serious tiptoeing to deflect most of the unions' ire onto Clinton, who could afford it; now Gore's got the China bill's - and NAFTA's - main champion as his right-hand...
...reaction to this week's scandal has only served, observers and opponents argue, to underscore his reputation as an unsuitably blas? presence in a high-security post. Adding fuel to this fire, on Wednesday he skipped a congressional hearing into the Los Alamos losses, a move that garnered considerable ire in the form of a strikingly unsubtle rebuke to the secretary: The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed the nation's first National Nuclear Security Administration. But that wasn't the end of Richardson's nonchalance. In a statement apparently devoid of irony, he reportedly complained that the creation...
Campbell sparked criticism when he objected to racy--and, he felt, "confrontational and tasteless"--advertising flyers for BGLTSA events, and evoked further ire by conducting an election over an e-mail list with a limited outreach to potential candidates...
Shumsky--who has frequently aroused Driskell's ire this semester, most notably when he bashed the council's proposed Spirit Week--strolled down the aisle to receive his award and wrapped Driskell in a bear...
...proposal Microsoft offered informally prior to U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's initial ruling against the company. If that opinion is widely held, Microsoft could suffer; any public perception that Microsoft is trying to loosen the noose around its neck will likely be met with widespread ire among consumers - and, perhaps more important, within Judge Penfield Jackson's chambers...