Word: upsetness
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...Menino reiterated his earlier concerns over the circumstances of the sale process, adding that he was upset over Harvard’s lack of clarity about their plans for the land...
...reason politicians seem so dorky is that other than the filibuster, there aren't any cool parliamentary procedures. But the ultimate move--the one that's making Aaron Sorkin even more upset that he won't be writing The West Wing next season--is to halt a vote by hightailing it out of town and then evading the cops looking to drag you back. It's always a ratings grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms...
...toll-free number for information on their whereabouts and made a deck of Iraq-inspired playing cards with pictures of the Democrats on them. They even used the state's public-safety website to run an all-points bulletin, a move the Democrats found offensive. Democrats got much more upset--Joe Lieberman asked for an investigation--by reports that Texas officials had asked the feds to help track lawmaker Pete Laney's plane. Outside the statehouse, Republican supporters dressed in chicken outfits accused the Dems of cowardice. On Wednesday, Republicans, unable to think of any new jokes, went home...
...Houses, those students who by some stroke of luck have a (decent-sized) common room, who are 21, and who are willing to shell out the necessary dough can apply to have a party which will end at 1 a.m. sharp. As often as not, something will upset the delicate balance: it will be “too noisy,” or there will be difficulty removing people from the hallways, or hundreds of first-years will show up from the Yard because nothing else is going...
...remaining workers at Al Tuwaitha are upset with U.S. soldiers, whom they fell have failed to protect the center and decontaminate it. A senior engineer, Mehdi Nimaa Tarish, went with a handful of volunteers and laid concrete on the radioactive floor of the store where the yellow cake had been kept, then bricked up its broken windows, he said. The Americans "watched from a safe distance," he said, and gave no assistance...