Word: chagrinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faced as mayor: "It's unexplainable and it's frightening." In 1980 Los Angeles had a record 1,023 murders, in contrast with 490 when he took office. Bradley has doubled the police budget during his two terms, an increase largely consumed by inflation. To his chagrin, a plan to raise additional revenues through a special tax was defeated in a referendum last week...
...Ronald Reagan is learning to his chagrin in Washington, calling for cutbacks is one thing; delivering on them is something else again...
...Core? As Wilcox says, "These reforms don't last forever. Rosovsky and the others won't be here to push it forever. Other deans with other priorities will come in, just as happened with Gen Ed." With a certain chagrin in his voice, he adds, "right now you can graduate without taking a single Gen Ed course." The more things change, the more things stay the same. Over at the Harvard Club, they still have that five foot shelf of books...
This statement, like many in Nader's long-time battle for consumer rights, has a distinct military flavor. The man whose Washington aides call themselves "Nader's Raiders" is a battle-searred veteran of countless corporate skirmishes. An old soldier, certainly, but, to the chagrin of corporate America, one not likely to fade away for a long time...
...give mixed signals to business," he says. "We can't say we want growth but only in certain areas." He believes, for example, that residential water rates must be raised in the city if new water sources are to be developed to attract industry. To the chagrin of COPS, he also favors raising user fees for public services like garbage collection, and acknowledges that the city may eventually have to raise property taxes to help offset a projected $18.5 million deficit...