Word: wrathful
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Here in Iowa, a swarm of locusts should be descending any minute now. After being plagued for the past three weeks by natural disasters of near-Biblical proportion, from wrath-of-God-style tornadoes to epic flooding, what next...
...company is likewise trying to avoid incurring public wrath in China. In the first quarter of this year, Coke's sales there rose by 20% compared with the same period last year; sales growth in North America was flat in the quarter. But in the future, double-digit increases could be constrained by China's environmental problems. China is home to roughly 20% of the world's population, but only about 7% of the world's water. That means there are some 300 million people living in water-scarce areas - and increasingly, citizens and officials are becoming more militant about...
...slim chances of passing; critics say it would bruise the faltering U.S. economy by hindering manufacturers and saddling consumers with energy cost increases. But advocates hope the bipartisan measure will establish a blueprint for attempts to curb emissions under the next Administration, while leaving its opponents susceptible to the wrath of pro-environment voters in November...
...Democratic frontrunners had any fresh alternatives to Reaganomics, believing the two men intended simply to continue throwing money at the nation’s problems. Kennedy’s withdrawal clears the way for bolder Democrats to seek the party’s nomination without incurring the wrath of devoted fans of his brothers’ Camelot. On the two broad issues, creative Democratic alternatives—to the knee-jerk liberalism of Kennedy as well as to the simplistic atavism of Reagan—seem particularly key. Defense spending has long been a bete noire for the Democrats...
...cartoonishly hot temper. Early last year, when Nintendo engineers had trouble executing his vision for a new kind of game that involved stepping on a scale and weighing yourself, they learned firsthand just how much like Bowser--Mario's fire-breathing archnemesis--Miyamoto could be. "I suffered the wrath of Miyamoto-san because we weren't coming up with enough ideas," developer Arisa Hosaka said in an online interview posted by Nintendo. "We all started panicking and just throwing ideas around, hoping that something would stick...