What if the red and yellow spray bottle fails to stop irate calls from chief executives or deliver the other suggested benefits?

She was only able to get a card after more than five months of trying and many irate calls to the M.T.A.

"We got irate calls from people who wanted to know why we were building swimming pools for illegal aliens," she said.

So before the first wave of irate calls could flood through her office, Miyakawa made a second announcement.

"I got a couple of very irate calls from the Secret Service," Taylor laughed.

Thus, the sales representatives had to cope with new clients even as they fielded irate calls from old ones.

But when we published the story, the newspaper got irate calls from the headmaster, and the drug counselor lost his job.

You should be starting to get all the irate calls, and I want to see him now.

"So I had to take four or five irate calls from that guy," she says.

The chamber quickly started to lose members - and to field irate calls from Republican legislators warning against giving any support to the Clinton plan.