And that fury, it seems, is only going to get fiercer.
There are typically two applicants chasing every course place, but in Sheffield the competition is even fiercer; for the 87 places on Sheffield degrees this year there were about 950 applicants.
Competition had been fiercer, markets had proved more volatile, there was much more that governments needed to do to regulate and manage them than the prevailing orthodoxy suggested at the time.
They are also facing ever fiercer competition at home and abroad, which makes them increasingly sensitive to costs including the costs of regulation and tax.
But Wing Lung also had operating licences in China that would have tempted ANZ's chief executive Michael Smith when he was head of HSBC in Asia, he pushed the British bank deeper into the mainland.Bidding for Wing Lung was fierce, but it could have been fiercer still.
The Committee to Protect Journalists estimates that only Zimbabwe has produced more exiled journalists since 2001, though Eritrea is much fiercer at curbing the freedom of the press.The Ethiopian government's efforts at political control are supported by a wide network of informers and secret police.
Rather than being neutral in this dispute, the census form took sides by allowing respondents to indicate their caste as dalit only if they claimed to be Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist.The shakier the state, the fiercer the rows about censuses, for numbers affect how power is distributed.
Instead of coddling inefficient incumbents through this difficult period, the world's governments need to expose them to fiercer competition.
The fiercer of the Palestinian movements, Hamas, is an offshoot of the Brotherhood.Jump before you are pushedMr Mubarak, like the rest of the Arab world's autocrats, will be pondering the despot's eternal dilemma.
Sports channels have broad appeal, but competition for rights is getting fiercer.
