Word: dismay
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Hoffman said the European reaction will be oneof "general dismay...
...laws or regulations. Whether they're fundamental changes, however, depends on whether the public will care enough to push for them." In that regard, the widening stain surrounding Ivan Boesky may be serving a perverse kind of service to the integrity of the marketplace. If the shock and dismay engendered by his case are bolstered by further disclosures, popular indignation could guarantee a regulatory shakeup. It may be that further fallout resulting from Boesky's cooperation with the authorities will also help to clean up the marketplace the old-fashioned way: by deterring insiders from succumbing to Wall Street...
...attentions of the rest of the league will be focused on Ithaca, N.Y., where league-undefeateds Penn and Cornell will battle for the Ivy title, but not the PBS cameras, which will carry this Game instead (much to the dismay of Quaker and Big Red boosters in the East). After all, The Game has tradition going for it--and in Ivy League football, that counts...
...write to express our dismay at an opinion expressed in The Crimson by John Ross (October 6). Ross argued that the anti-apartheid movement at Harvard should shift gears from demanding divestment to raising material aid for the liberation movements in South Africa...
Over the summer, I learned, to my dismay, that Harvard harbors plans to eliminate the venerable Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Art; supposedly the flamboyant structure on the corner of Kirkland and Divinity Streets no longer meets "state-of-the-art" conservation standards. Anxious to verify this, I inquired of Museum officials and was informed that "it was not permitted" for them to discuss matters pertaining to the Museum's closure. Well, far be it from me to impede the inexorable march of progress; but I can't help wondering just who (aside from those administrators who are slated...