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...were taken aback by their problems with getting out,” said Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy and management and director of the Harvard Program on Public Opinion and Health and Social Policy. “More than 10 percent of these people slept outside for a day. More than half were trapped for three days...
...wise thing to do. I was even slightly taken aback by my own sensible actions, and tried to figure out what had prompted me to achieve this new, profound level of astuteness...
Casey B. Mulligan ’91, a professor in the University of Chicago’s economics department, said that he found Hoxby’s work convincing, but added that he was taken aback by what he called “irrelevant rhetoric” in her response...
...night after I met with Arroyo, I had dinner in Manila with the firm's co-founder, a Westerner who has done business in the Philippines for 30 years and who personally pays for the education of 21 local kids. I was taken aback by how emotional he was about what he called the "moral obligation to invest" in the country. "These people are trying to find a way out," he said. "You just have to give them the chance. They've given up on the idea of something changing at the top. But money gives them hope...
...said no." Other first-time directors, like Actress-Director Lee Grant (Tell Me a Riddle), were cowed with tough-guy analogies: a director must be a field marshal, a quarterback, a boardroom Svengali. "This producer asked me, 'But can you be the captain of a ship?' I was taken aback at the Captain Ahab image of dealing with sailors in a muscular world. Everyone can be a different kind of captain on a different kind of ship and bring in different kinds of results. You do have to be a damned good sailor, though...