Word: chagrined
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...discuss "how Jiang forced the U.S. to its knees," says a member. But Jiang remains vulnerable. These days, he's trying to show his statesmanship by dissuading Washington from selling Aegis-equipped destroyers to Taiwan. If the radar deal goes through, the generals will be outraged. To his chagrin, Jiang's final grade on this crisis may ultimately...
...discuss "how Jiang forced the U.S. to its knees," says a member. But Jiang remains vulnerable. These days, he's trying to show his statesmanship by dissuading Washington from selling Aegis-equipped destroyers to Taiwan. If the radar deal goes through, the generals will be outraged. To his chagrin, Jiang's final grade on this crisis may ultimately be up to the U.S. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing...
Fact is, the coach was right. Carolina, consistently among the greatest programs in college basketball, did get the benefit of the doubt back then, much to the chagrin of ABCers across the country. Krzyzewski's famous outcry won him a degree of national respect and, more than anything, established Duke as that intended to nto just compete with the North Carolina of the basketball, but to beat them...
...Harvard community will soon enter a period of mourning for that loveable headphone-wearing cat who will now, slowly but surely, disappear from desktops across campus into extinction. Yes, the death knell of Napster has at last come, much to the chagrin of the undergraduate community. By affirming the illegality of downloading copyrighted music, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week all but guaranteed that Napster will soon be nothing more than a fond memory. But while the court's decision has been lauded by the recording industry as a moral triumph, we cannot help but wonder whether...
...passed in 1996, as part of the Helms-Burton package that tightened the embargo against Cuba, and also provided for U.S. sanctions against foreign companies trading with the communist island state. But President Clinton's waiver has ensured that it has never been applied, much to the chagrin of such leading Republicans as Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms...