Word: ire
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...would be so nice.' Now they say, 'Oh, Mr. Kanfer, if you would just clean your office once a month . . .' " What Kanfer does not mention is that he was once assaulted by a cleaning lady driven to violence over the impenetrable litter. The cause of her ire: the discovery of her long-lost feather duster under a pile of manuscripts...
...raising the Social Security benefits. Then the people got to the bottom line and discovered who had to pay and how much. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims that the anger of businessmen over taxes this autumn is the highest in years. Pollster Louis Harris has placed the national ire at a level he defines as "public outrage." Tax experts believe that there could be a spread of local tax revolts, which temporarily closed schools in Ohio and Oregon. They also fear a rise in "bartering." An accountant may do the books of a dentist, who then tends the bookkeeper...
This involvement was not always of his own doing. He did not place himself on former President Nixon's enemies list, but his name appeared there nevertheless. His reporting provoked that administration's ire, more so than that of most of his colleagues, and so there he was, in the "top 20--Number 17, to be precise...
...focus of both Wyatt's pride and Letteri's ire is the internal reorganization of the Harvard force begun in 1975 by David L. Gorski, former chief of University police. Gorski, a "scientific cop" with a tough-guy image, came to Harvard in late 1974 intending to remake the University force in his own image. Drawing on his municipal experience, Gorski instituted a computer system to analyze crime statistics, a specialized crime-prevention unit, and a special task force assigned to high-crime areas. The new system, however, disrupted the traditional union method of assigning shifts according to seniority, rather...
...Callas, the subject of such ire and much admiration? She was a woman for whom the term prima donna could have been invented. Tempestuous, unpredictable, charming, ruthless, overwhelmingly talented, capable of canceling a performance halfway through (as she did once in Rome) even with a King in the audience. In her long face a kind of gypsy coarseness struggled with and failed to dominate a classic beauty. She could act with her voice and sing with her body, like a great tragedienne. Especially in her later years, that voice could be edgy and even ugly. But that did not matter...