Word: stridently
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...charts by earning $14.9 million last year - less than the U.S. average and under one-fifth of what disgraced Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski earned. That's because European shareholders and unions have long campaigned against corporate excess. But with stock prices falling, the demands have become more strident, hitting even CEOs like Jean-Pierre Garnier and Christopher Gent, who have finally begun to heave their stock prices in the right direction. But at least they had a chance to start before being attacked - on Thursday, Britain's National Association of Pension Funds launched a preemptive strike on the drugstore chain...
...from here, before Gulf War I, that religious scholars and imams had launched the most strident attacks on the Saudi monarchy for allowing the "infidel" American troops in to defile the holy land...
...doorstep of her new home, 10 Downing Street, the new leader cited the compassionate litany of St. Francis of Assisi: "Where there is discord, let there be harmony." It would be the last conciliatory message from this aggressive, even strident, Prime Minister, who boasted, "I am not a consensus politician, I am a conviction politician!" Her conservative creed transformed Britain: she broke the unions' stranglehold, flogged the business world out of complacency, altered the welfare-state mentality and boldly fought a war over the Falkland Islands, some 8,000 miles away. And she did it all her way. --By Bonnie...
...registering and maintaining a dozen militant websites promoting violence against U.S. interests. U.S. officials want to know more about al-Hussayen's work for the sponsor of most of these sites, the radical Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a Michigan-based group known as one of the most strident voices of Islam on the Web. IANA hosted the websites of two radical Saudi sheiks--Salman al-Awdah and Safar al-Hawali--both of whom are closely associated with Osama bin Laden and who provided religious justification for the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the SITE Institute, a Washington-based...
...then?Prime Minister, General Sarit Thanarat, ordered a complete ban on the pint-sized three-wheelers to take effect four years hence. He claimed they were a noisy, dangerous menace; however, he died in 1963, before the ban could be implemented, and his successor, in the face of strident protests from drivers and owners, decided Bangkok could live with the tuk tuk after...