Granted, later, when I became more independent and my parents were less involved, my temper flared.

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Soon I sensed my deeper breathing as my temper turned to seething.

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"I lost my temper completely, " he told the Slovenian sports daily Ekipa.

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Losing my temper I quickly realised some people were in a worse situation, the lady before me was from Newcastle Australia and her house had burned down the previous day, she was crying.

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My biggest mistake may have been a failure to temper my style to the culture of print newsrooms, as clearly, there has been a contentious attitude between us from the day I walked in.

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My soul had thrown a temper tantrum.

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As I say to my children whenever they throw a temper tantrum: tough noogies.

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Her temper tantrums are something I can relate to, but my son's are more baffling to me.

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"It's going to temper the use of these drugs, there's no doubt in my mind, " says Douglas Weaver, a cardiologist at Henry Ford Hospital and the president of the American College of Cardiology, which is meeting in Chicago this weekend.

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"The temper tantrums, the destroying the set, I've been training for this my whole career, " he says.

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