Word: ire
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Islamic law forbids illustrations of Muhammad, and the nature of the images—one of them depicting Muhammad as a terrorist with a bomb in his turban—has raised ire across the globe...
...iconic image of last week was in the Gaza Strip. It was of a Palestinian gunman astride the local office of the European Union. All the diplomatic staff had fled, tipped off ahead of time. The source of the militant's ire? A series of satirical cartoons originally published in Denmark. Yes, cartoons...
...users, a number that grew a plump 18% in 2005. Granted, so far few Chinese have credit cards, but when they do, Google's shareholders are going to be peeved if it doesn't host a chunk of the ads that will woo them. And the owners showed their ire last week, not over censorship, but over the crass fact that Google's profit increased a mere 82% in its last quarter. That's not enough for a $433 stock, which became a $381 stock in the days after the announcement. Google may foster a perception that it is beyond...
...manner in which Kirby’s resignation occurred was a major source of ire for professors...
...public. ?All evils come from aged business managers,? he often declared. And the more they called his deal-making style into question, the more daring he made them, straying into territory that was exclusive to the big boys (like trying to buy a pro baseball team, thus raising the ire of Japan?s powerful media conglomerates, who own some of the richest teams) and politics (running, unsuccessfully, against a machine politician but scoring new points with his young and fervent stockholder fanbase...