Word: aghast
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...handpicked candidates had turned down the top job, both saying their existing employers offered generous pay raises to keep them. Many critics feel the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games flubbed by offering bronze-medal remuneration -- $292,000 a year -- for a gold-medal job. Others are aghast that the honor of the position is apparently not incentive enough. Said salesman Charlie Perkiss: "They must start looking for someone who believes in the Olympic spirit...
...Barr is aghast at the distortion of his writings: "I wrote a paper for a theoretical journal about specific properties of an interesting, neglected molecule," he says. "It included no stupid things like the more melanin you have, the smarter...
Maybe not. But last week, after the Chicago Tribune broke the news of Poisson's misconduct, it was clear that his "white lies" were a breach of science's code of honor. Physicians were aghast, government officials were embarrassed, and breast-cancer victims were fretting about whether they had received the best treatment. Coming in the wake of a whole series of highly publicized allegations of fraud in the scientific world -- some unjustified -- the clear-cut case against Poisson dealt a new blow to the reputation of the research community. Said a federal scientist involved with the investigation: "This...
...literary world was aghast at what the changed leadership would portend for the New Yorker. Brown was known primarily for rescuing tottering magazines; she was the chief architect of Vanity Fair's transformation into the hot book of the '80s. VF reflected that decade's zeitgeist, a dubious mix of camp and celebrity worship underlaid with thinly disguised cynicism. Tina Brown transformed it into the kind of magazine which would reside illicitly in the sock drawer of serious reader: titillating but not substantial...
...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...