Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raises rates then, it seems sure that it will dismay both the Republicans, who will have just officially named Bob Dole their candidate, and the Democrats, who will be about to convene and reanoint Bill Clinton. Dole is assailing Clinton for being willing to settle for inadequate growth, as evidenced by the 2.5% 1996 forecast. Dole's advisers think a promise of faster acceleration, to be achieved largely by tax cuts, may be just the thing to bring the President down. Clinton boasts that he has already achieved robust growth--10 million new jobs since his Inauguration--and his advisers...
...Arab capitals the results were greeted with varying degrees of indifference, dismay, anxiety, bitterness, resignation. "We don't differentiate between Peres and Netanyahu," said Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, noting that "a few weeks ago, it was Peres who was bombing civilians in Lebanon." But Netanyahu's ascendance was grim news to most Arabs. "We in the Middle East are in trouble," said Nawaf Salam, a law lecturer at the American University of Beirut. "Only Peres was willing to offer something the Arabs could accept. With him, Israel had a real possibility of reconciliation with the region. Now all this...
...letter, dated December 1, expressed "severe dismay" at the elimination of Bovet's position...
...tentacles of the media octopi. The accompanying article, by Mark Crispin Miller of Johns Hopkins University, credits the federal government for allowing the perpetuation of the media trusts and for permitting their pernicious effects on our culture. He writes of "the true causes of those enormous ills that now dismay so many Americans: the universal sleaze and 'dumbing down,' the flood-tide of corporate propaganda, the terminal inanity of US politics. These have arisen not from any grand decline in national character nor from the plotting of some Hebrew cabal but from the inevitable toxic influence of those few corporations...
...love to lambaste, is back in form, courtesy of gasoline prices rising geyser-like to more than $2 per gal. in some places. "Gasoline prices are outrageous; my bill has gone up about $20 a month," complains Debra Davis, a San Francisco school-district employee, as she stares in dismay at prices at the pumps...