Word: tantrum
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...David B. Lat's vicious blindsiding of VideoPros (Feb. 15, "Rudeness Runs Amok"). Aside from the fact that the piece is riddled with potentially libelous innuendo and free-wheeling "facts," the opinions are not enlightening or newsworthy, and merely reflect one person's vendetta that grew from a temper tantrum...
GINGRICH GOES STRATOSPHERIC: The loud Speaker threw a tantrum about being seated in the rear of Air Force One on the way home from the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin. David Letterman said Clinton tried to explain to Gingrich that it "was just to balance the weight." A Republican asked on the House floor, "Is it parliamentary to call the Speaker of the House a crybaby?" To appease Gingrich, White House press secretary Mike McCurry offered him the special M&Ms from the presidential plane...
...Tepperman decided to go to Florida with his wife despite Perelman's insistence that he remain in New York. In court, Tepperman recalled that when he demanded to know why his physical presence was so urgently required in the age of faxes and modems, Perelman exploded in a characteristic tantrum, shouting "I'm the boss! I don't have to answer these questions. You be here next week because I want you to be here next week." When Tepperman went to Florida anyway, and ignored a fax ordering him to return, he was sacked...
...contain his excitement. But press Gates on a subject he doesn't want to talk about-like the charges of anticompetitive, and possibly illegal, business practices that have been turning up lately, like ex-girlfriends at a wedding party -- and he is liable to throw a tantrum. "I challenge your facts!" he shouts when confronted with a new but relatively minor allegation. "That's a lie! I mean, it's just not true. I never heard of any such thing. What a bunch of nonsense...
...testified at a House subcommittee hearing that "Eighty percent of the American people" want a constitutional amendment banning flag desecration. Solomon, chief sponsor of such a bill, which the House is expected to take up next month, says flag burning is not speech or expression but "a hateful tantrum," and should not be protected. Opponents of the bill say it would infringe on free-speech rights and amounts to "constitutional desecration." Supporters say the measure already has 272 of the 290 votes it needs to pass in the House, and 54 out of 67 needed in the Senate...