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Still, Mailer was irked.
Environmental and consumer groups are irked by the bills' concessions to oil, gas, and nuclear utilities, though some, er, tree-huggers are happy about a provision allowing timber companies to write off the replanting costs.
Holland has expunged much of the melodrama that marked the war-horse dramatization The Heiress (made into a 1949 film with Olivia de Havilland, directed by William Wyler), and has even corrected a problem that irked James, years after publication, when he reread his early novel and declined to revise it for reprinting: that Morris Townsend, Catherine's fortune-hunting suitor, was too much of a one-dimensional lout.
USAT 's front reports that the Supreme Court, irked about last spring's tell-all book by an ex-clerk about the Court's inner workings, has told this term's clerks that the Supremes' secrets are to be kept "forever."
They are also irked by U.S. military support for Taiwan--especially the U.S. plan to deploy a Theater Missile Defense for Taiwan in the next few years.