Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DISMAY, MANY PEOPLE MISGUIDEDLY believe doctors are some kind of gods who never make mistakes. You emphasized that "negligence in American hospitals may result in 80,000 deaths each year,'' and more or less hid the fact that this comes to only a tiny percentage of patients physicians help every year. I am not excusing the tragic errors made by a few physicians; however, I am applauding the phenomenal success rate doctors have managed as technology and new treatments keep advancing and become more complex...
Jardine, Suleiman and their colleagues andstudents have responded to Loupan's allegationswith a mixture of anger and amused dismay. Jardinesays that the magazine is "less respectable" thanthe daily newspaper. Still, Suleiman says thatmany people do read the glossy supplement...
Just 19 years after Barbra Streisand's remake of A Star Is Born opened to unkind reviews, fans of the 1954 original (or, indeed, the 1937 original original) have another reason for dismay. ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Sunset Boulevard) intends to stage his version of the old classic. To the relief of many, however, he will use Harold Arlen's songs from...
...Zealand's Maori are caught at a nexus of civilizations. Ever since the British conceded land rights to the great Maori warriors, the aborted attempt to dominate the island has translated into a process of westernization which threatens to complete the job. Traditionalists always have expressed their dismay at the needless pain the cultural division has so evidently caused. Now Maori artists like Alan Duff, on whose book the movie is based, and director Lee Tamahori are joining in the fight...
...atmosphere of cooperation and bipartisanship among the various contenders. He should also seek the help, the well-intentioned advice and the support of whomever is willing to give it. But he should take care not to be unduly influenced by one side of the political spectrum to the dismay of the other, or worse yet, to the detriment of the American people...