Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House hopes that dismay over the size of the deficit will keep pressure on Congress to cut domestic programs further. In order to hold the deficit to less than $100 billion in fiscal 1983, which begins Oct. 1, the Administration has requested $25 billion more in budget cuts. Reagan insisted last week that this well is far from dry. Said he: "The amount of money in the budget for '83 for all human and social affairs is a 4.5% increase over the 1982 budget." This is not the case. According to Reagan's budget, outlays for programs...
...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Strom Thurmond (R-SC) sponsored the bill Democratic leaders in the Senate have expressed dismay that Kennedy normally a liberal, has backed the measure
White House aides are amused at the proposition that Bush has established his own cells within the Administration. Indeed, Bush was so intent on proving he was a team player that he has tiptoed around the appointments process, to the dismay of his longtime supporters. Although Bush last week clumsily tried to deny that he once called Reaganomics "voodoo economics," the fact that he made the statement in 1980 is viewed by the right as proof that the Vice President is not a true believer. However, the fact that he tried to deny saying it may be even more interesting...
Much to the dismay of the cadres of social conservatives and Moral Majoritarians who helped elect Ronald Reagan, the Administration insisted last year that the most prickly proposals on the New Right agenda, such as outlawing abortion and banning busing as a tool to desegregate schools, be put off while the new Government concentrated on the more pressing economic and budgetary concerns. Even now, many top officials, from the White House to Capitol Hill, would like to see these troublesome issues continue to simmer and sputter on a conveniently distant backburner. Conservative leaders, however, are in no mood to wait...
...infatuated with nuclear power. The American people certainly seem to be losing interest. Voters in Austin, Texas voted last July to sell that city's 16 percent interest in the South Texas Nuclear Project. William Winpsinger, president of the million-member International Association of Machinists, registered his union's dismay at Reagan's nuclear plans, calling for increases in solar energy spending instead. And on the most practical level, people seem to be voting with their furnaces against nuclear power--Worldwatch Institute reports that as of January 1981, more of America's total energy came from wood than from nuclear...