Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismay of Reagan's New Right followers, the lists of candidates for top jobs are dominated by moderate-conservative veterans of the Nixon and Ford administrations. Richard Viguerie, a leading right-winger, complained angrily that "there is not a hard-core conservative in the lot. Was it the Ford-Kissinger-Rockefeller wing of the party that has been promoting Reagan for 16 years...
...church to keep the 1662 book in the "mainstream of worship." Among signers: former Prime Minister Lord Home, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, Historian Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), Conductor Sir Adrian Boult, Sculptor Henry Moore, Novelist William Golding, Lord Olivier and Glenda Jackson. Actor Paul Scofield says Britons feel "dismay" over the likely loss of so much "that is deeply poetic and influential in our language...
...union representing Harvard's dining hall workers, knows too well the feeling of being tugged two ways. As a negotiator at last spring's contract sessions, he recognized the need to get his constituency what it wanted--a wage increase in an inflationary era. But he watched in dismay as Harvard attached a proviso to its three-year deal calling for successive 10-, 9- and 8-per-cent raises. The University said it would contract out the Harkness dining hall at the Law School. To its credit, Harvard assured that none of the Harkness employees were laid off. But Walden...
...problems with Gen Ed, according to the Core's founders, was that it lacked specific standards for the courses offered under its aegis. The Core has taken care of that, much to the dismay of some students and Faculty members, by setting goals for courses in each of the program's ten divisions. The Core committees, which review potential courses, have for the most part taken seriously their role as enforcers of those guidelines, rejecting some suggestions outright and sending others back to professors for extensive revision. In the Core's first year, "a number of proposals--including many excellent...
...Americans, then, it came as something of a surprise when Manley's party went down to an overwhelming defeat at the polls last week, and the prime minister himself was barely able to hold on to his parliamentary seat. Students and professors at Harvard expressed their dismay at Manley's fall. "It's going to set Jamaica back 10 years," Selwyn Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, said. And Karen Alphonse '83, a Jamaican, concurred. "Manley has raised Jamaica's political consciousness. You cannot get up now and tell Jamaicans they cannot be satisfied," she said...