Their brazen ways risk riling antitrust regulators, still giddy from smacking around that rapacious monopolist, Microsoft.

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Now Slovakia's economic policy has again been riling policymakers in Brussels and Berlin.

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Even more riling for Thailand's more nationalistic citizens is that the telecommunications giant was sold to Temasek Holdings , the state-owned investment arm of Singapore.

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Then, in 2002, Iran rejected London's choice of David Reddaway -- a Farsi speaker with an Iranian wife -- to be ambassador to Tehran, riling London.

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He frets about angering county commissioners or riling local news publishers and influential radio stations such as KCRW, an NPR affiliate, who he believes played a significant role in raising public objections to the Koolhaas plan.

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One interesting fact: two workers who had been complaining constantly about the conditions on the job and riling up other workers were among the worst performers, so management thought that giving them the information might get them to change their behavior.

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