Word: riled
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...Mean Streets a group of dull young men who live in New York City's Little Italy are anxious not to rile the Mafia if they cannot impress it. So they tiresomely hang around bars, pool halls and street corners, punching and grunting at one another until, as their mothers must have warned them, someone gets hurt...
...ruggedly handsome, 66-year-old, former All-Big Ten football guard from Northwestern, maintains that any of Dart Industries' divisions are for sale "if the price is right." Conversely, he is looking for profitable acquisitions but pledges that they will be "low profile" so as not to rile the Justice Department. In the interim he has designed an unusual management structure: Chairman Dart declines to appoint a president, holding that position himself and relying on seven group presidents who enjoy great autonomy. Says the blunt-spoken Justin Dart: "I don't have time to louse up the operating...
...KAREN E. RILE...
Curiously, Australia's new Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam seemed to rile Heath more by warning the underdeveloped Commonwealth countries to beware of multinational corporations. Heath retorted that if Whitlam had problems with such corporations in Australia, he should enact antitrust laws. "That would ensure competition," the British Conservative leader said. "But," he added, cuttingly, "that is not something socialist prime ministers like to hear...
...reduce the full range of strategic weapons maintained by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The SALT II talks are not even scheduled to begin until October, and they could go on for years -or collapse overnight. Until the main event takes place, however, SALT I will serve to rile both hawks and doves-and cast doubt on whether it can indeed bring the arms race under control...