Word: dealt
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...staff, who nevertheless are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks. Never a flush organization, NPR can withstand some painful fiscal austerity, but the blows this crisis have dealt to the energy and enthusiasm that made the station what it has become, will be harder to repair. One former employee describes "a sense of real doom that NPR will never be the same again. That an era is over." The overwhelming listener support pledged in the fundraiser delivered a badly needed shot in the arm to the staff, but many are still disillusioned and angered by the events of the past...
...cannot go into an organization, five one-third of the work force, drive up to the guardrail of bankruptcy, and pretend that nothing has happened," Drummond explained, adding that he worries that NPR's shows will he affected by "the primal scare that has been dealt the stall in the past two weeks...
Harvard Square--for all its acknowledged imperfections, which are manifold--is one of those rare congested urban areas which somehow seem to work at a human scale. Though not wholly rational, the underlying system--not clearly understood by anybody involved--should not be dealt with capriciously.--The 1976 Comprehensive Policy Plan for Harvard Square, compiled by the Harvard Square Task Force...
...Pemex chief, the flamboyant Díaz Serrano often dealt bluntly with the U.S. As he once put it, "We aim to deal with the U.S. according to our program of energy." In 1978, while he was running Pemex, Mexico abruptly canceled a natural gas sale after the U.S. refused to meet the Pemex price. In June 1981, after the worldwide oil glut had forced Mexico to lower its export price, Díaz Serrano suddenly resigned from his Pemex post after his enemies charged that he had not cleared the price cut with Lopez Portillo...
...when Opel was being considered for chief executive. They were concerned that he would have trouble handling relations with the board and the public and within the company. Says one board member, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton: "He is very possibly the brightest chief executive I've ever dealt with. But he did have some difficulty expressing himself." Yet former Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro, another board member, says that this has not turned out to be a problem. Says he: "The beautiful thing is that Opel has come out of his shell...