Word: upset
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...Trouble first surfaced several weeks ago, sources tell TIME, when Bush met in the Oval Office with HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and America's top official for economic assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development head Andrew Natsios . As Thompson discussed the new HIV-AIDS plan, Natsios grew upset and insisted that his agency should play the lead role. Bush, who is famously impatient with internal bickering, was visibly irritated by the turf skirmish, and sharply instructed Deputy National Security Advisor Gary Edson to resolve the dispute...
...Simon and his staff were justifiably miffed when the White House took sides so early in the primary. (Simon's not the only one - the White House has actually upset Republicans in several states by choosing sides in primary fights.) On the other hand, Simon's certainly not going to turn down support from Bush. So his campaign has embraced Rove's interference; Bush traveled to the state twice to raise money for Simon and has promised to visit again. But Simon is not running a great campaign. He looks like he's in over his head, which is exactly...
...parish councils, pastors or even bishops. Others demand financial transparency or rollbacks of Vatican limitations on the lay liturgical role. Even the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Novak, a conservative theologian and columnist who would condone little of the above, admits that "both conservatives and liberals are very upset. The bishops are God's shepherds, and they've let the wolves among the flock. Some lay leadership is needed to help find which direction to go in and what...
Laurence Steinberg, a Temple University psychologist who studies adolescents, hears a familiar tune. "Adults have always been upset by the provocative nature of teenage dancing," he says. "When the twist was introduced, high school principals were saying they wanted to ban that...
...rebels and fear of the Japanese, the farmer hatches a plan of self-preservation that proves disastrous. All the characters display a dose of humanity, even the Japanese soldiers, who by film's end have the blood of the entire village on their hands. This is what upset Beijing's censors: in official China, no one dares admit that the Japanese occupiers were anything more complex than child-gutting monsters...