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This corruption and authoritarianism have irked democracy advocates, but it has not been enough to fully discredit Tudjman.
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.
Schell said he was irked first by the name and then by "obnoxious, objectionable" content such as presidential, urination, and flatulence jokes.
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.
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.