Word: aback
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...Deutsche Börse's management and the replacement of most of its supervisory board. As well as securing Seifert's removal, the investors also picked off Rolf Breuer, the chairman of the supervisory board, who said he would quit before year's end. Many Germans were taken aback by the sight of heads rolling at the exchange - a symbol of German capitalism - but not all believed "locusts" were to blame. Reinhild Keitel of Schutzgemeinschaft der Kapitalanleger, a German minority shareholders group, describes Müntefering's interventions as "an absolutely scandalous election ploy." Dieter Hundt, president of the Confederation...
They were forgivably surprised to see me. Even Allard—apparently I had forgotten to RSVP—was a little taken aback. She gathered the team together and explained her plan for the practice in addition to why this crazy-haired reporter with too-small sweatpants and a black baseball glove was hanging around. The reaction seemed an appropriate mixture of apprehension and amusement...
...Chinese authorities have traditionally been wary of public protests, and they may have been taken aback by the intensity of the protesters' passions. "They never expected so many people to show up," says a top aide to the Shanghai municipal government. "It scared them to see how quickly crowds can form." Another district aide says, "The leaders are nervous. They are doing everything to stop protests from happening again." The strategy worked in 1989, when Shanghai's leaders avoided a fiasco similar to Beijing's Tiananmen Massacre by persuading students to return to their dorms for the sake...
...should understand the principle of blind justice better than Attorney General Edwin Meese. Still, he may have been slightly taken aback when he learned that a warrant for his arrest had been issued. Meese's trouble started two weeks ago, when a municipal court clerk in Los Angeles accidentally discovered the five-year-old warrant while scanning computer records. The top cop, it seems, had committed the crime of jaywalking in 1980, right in front of Ronald Reagan's California campaign headquarters. His fine: $10. When Meese, then Reagan's chief of staff, did not pay the penalty, it automatically...
Carter—a fellow and adjunct lecturer at the Center for Business and Government and Center for Public Leadership at KSG—offered few specifics about his plans for the NYSE, but he did say that he was not taken aback by the board’s decision to elect him as the new chairman...