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Still taken aback by the suddenness of Mockler's death, most Corporation members are simply filled with regret at the loss of a man with "the utmost integrity," Scott said...
Even the funny old world's leaders were taken aback at the spectacle of a head of government being challenged, then brought down by her own party. When she arrived in Paris for the summit on European security on Sunday, Thatcher was a virtual institution, the doyenne of chiefs of state and the longest- serving British Prime Minister in more than 160 years. There were rumblings * of discontent within the ruling Conservative Party, but she was confident she could keep them muffled. Within three days, however, Thatcher rushed back to London bearing fatal political wounds inflicted in her absence...
...competition has stolen away some of Citicorp's top-drawer clients. The bank was taken aback recently when it lost Marriott Hotels, a longtime corporate customer, to a group of Japanese rivals. Citi has also watched nervously as competitors expanded their American beachheads. Britain's Barclays Bank is enlarging its U.S. operations to target multinational firms, many of them Citicorp customers. Of all the rivals on Citi's turf, Reed considers Deutsche Bank "the biggest and most formidable" because of its commanding presence in Europe...
...East Coast audience was noticably taken aback by my answer. I wasn't from Long Island, Washington or New Jersey. They looked curiously at my bow tie, evidently wondering how I learned to tie one while slopping hogs and milking cows. I think they were more surprised that there were actually Jews living in Iowa...
...Taken aback by mounting outrage among the Arabs, Moscow has tried to limit political damage by shifting attention from Jewish emigration in general to the narrower issue of the settlement of Soviet Jews in the occupied West Bank. In Moscow First Deputy Foreign Minister Yuli Vorontsov told Israel's consular representative, "We oppose any use of citizens leaving the Soviet Union to push Palestinians off land belonging to them." Israel's actions, he said, "are likely to cause serious harm to peace in the Middle East." Another Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennadi Tarasov, flew to Tunis to reiterate those views...