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Vivid news coverage of the Brent Spar oil platform being towed toward burial at sea hit a raw nerve among Europeans, especially among Germans who are convinced recyclers.
When / { The Times'/ } sports editor indignantly responded to the hoax, it wasn't the first time a Saberhagen gag hit a raw nerve.
When the Dutch soccer federation ( KNVB ) awarded the exclusive television rights to a pay-TV consortium last summer, it hit a raw nerve in the nation.
In the meantime, I wrote the friendly user with some ideas about how we could help make this a better place, and I guess I hit a raw nerve.
Basically it hit a raw nerve, and a campaign to rid Wikipedia of me has grown as a result as I have attempted to expose what has been going on behind the scenes ."

The plan had already hit a raw nerve with the two private health insurers operating on the Slovak market, Zvolenska said the project was ready but it would not progress until the funding is secured.
When Lacson wrote and published this 108-page booklet " " 12 Little Things Every Filipino Can Do To Help Our Country " ", it immediately hit a raw nerve among many Filipinos.
After having been reminded by the IMF of the need for further fiscal reforms, the suggestion appeared to have hit a raw nerve with DOF officials facing the bleak prospect of a huge fiscal deficit in 1998.
While it is customary in many countries for presidents to reward rich backers with high-level posts, the incongruity between Berezovsky's business background and his new assignment appeared to hit a raw nerve in Russia.
Differing business philosophies hit a raw nerve again last month when Chrysler idled seven factories in the United States and Canada for a week to cut inventories of cars and trucks, which have posted big slowdowns in sales.

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