Word: aghast
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...heavily toward the plan. A.A.R.P. especially likes the idea of government-mandated insurance coverage for prescription medications and for home-care visits by nurses or aides -- two major needs for many sick seniors. But the elderly and allies in the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare are aghast at Clinton's intention to whack $238 billion out of Medicare and Medicaid spending between 1996 and 2000, mostly by limiting payments to doctors and hospitals. They do not trust Administration promises to return much of the money to the old and poor through other portions of the plan...
Mixner was aghast, however, when Clinton offhandedly suggested that he might be open to treating gays in uniform differently from heterosexuals: giving them special assignments or separate accommodation, and requiring them to keep their sexual preference in the closet. This idea would have denied gays what they seek and what their critics want to withhold: recognition as a legitimate part of the community. Mixner telephoned the White House repeatedly to express his disapproval, but his calls were not returned. When he spoke at a gay- oriented church and agreed to appear on ABC's Nightline, a White House aide tried...
...branch manager ((who has since died)) that I shouldn't get the money," recalls Campbell. "He convinced management that he could walk on water. He is a master salesman. He really thought a lot less of me because I let him do it. I was just so aghast that he would have the audacity to even suggest it -- and doubly aghast that the new manager went along with it. After that, I wouldn't touch anything he got close to." Hard feelings aside, Campbell plans to vote for Perot in November. "I still don't like him," he says...
...things begin to go wrong. In April he dressed down campaign chairman Tom Luce for not providing adequate briefing data during the taping of an interview. "Ross can only hold himself so long," predicts an ex-employee. "He'll nail someone on national television, and the public will be aghast...
Vosvick, a student at the Graduate School of Education, said he was "aghast" at the lack of cohesion he saw among Harvard's gay and lesbian organizations last year...