Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the Environmental Protection Agency announced tough new anti-pollution rules for autos last year, Detroit was aghast. "Arbitrary," said General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg. Henry Ford II declared that his company could not meet the standards-a 90% reduction in hydrocarbon and carbon-monoxide emissions by 1975-and that the timetable would require "suspension of most U.S. automotive operations...
Doctors and top military brass, who have previously regarded him as a hope less basket case, come running and are aghast at his message: kill me. The request is refused. No one will accept the responsibility for his death or acknowledge publicly his continued existence...
Most steel mills are heavy polluters of air and water. So the residents of Baytown, Texas, were understandably aghast when U.S. Steel acquired 15,000 acres for a new plant right next to Cedar Bayou, a valued local fish and wildlife refuge. Now the new plant, known as Texas Works, has been officially opened after six months of operation at one-third capacity. To the delight of all, it appears to be a model of enlightened industry-the first steel mill ever to make an effort to be clean clear through...
...attack, in Stanford eyes, came from local police. Armed with a search warrant, cops raided the offices of the Stanford Daily seeking reporters' notes and photographs that supposedly implicated some participants in a demonstration at the university hospital. While strongly critical of the police, campus officials were equally aghast at a series of violent acts that seemed to be largely the work of nonstudents...
...same time, there is deep disenchantment with the way the U.S. has fought the war. The Asians have seen that B-52s and free-fire zones are no answer to a local insurgency, and they are aghast at how badly U.S. technology and firepower have ravaged the countries they were supposed to save. Says the Philippines' Marcos: "I articulate what most of the nations feel-and what is that? Heaven forbid that war should come to their countries, and heaven forbid that the U.S. should duplicate what it has done in South Viet Nam if that war should come...