Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shock. Many were about to receive their annual bonuses. Now, in Barings outposts outside Britain, passports were being confiscated, properties frozen, company credit cards rescinded, salaries withheld-just as tax time approached. "We were a bank with a crest, not a trademark," said one Hong Kong employee in dismay. Indeed, Barings was one of the Queen's banks (she could lose as much as $1 million), and the founding family currently boasts five different hereditary peerages, more than any other English clan since the Middle Ages. The Princess of Wales is a great granddaughter of a Baring. But last week...
...winners in Jalisco support some aspects of Zedillo's economic belt-tightening program. Nonetheless, some Jalisco voters turned against the P.R.I. in part because of dismay over the nation's financial crisis. Since the December devaluation of the peso and the resulting sharp rise in prices, ``we earn enough to half-eat,'' jokes Catalina Ventura, speaking for herself and Concepcion Martinez, two saleswomen in a crafts shop in Tlaquepaque, outside Guadalajara, explaining why they had abandoned the P.R.I. to vote P.A.N. Such sentiments do not bode well for Zedillo's ability to unify the country behind the tough measures that...
With every appointment of a female professor at Harvard, there is cause for celebration and cause for dismay: celebration because each additional woman on Harvard's faculty represents a step toward balancing the male-skewed gender ratio, and dismay because men still make up the overwhelming majority of Harvard's faculty...
...dismay of all but the cold weather fanatics, the New England winter has returned to remind us that ski masks and scarves are the fashion "do" of this season. Unwilling to brave the potential frostbite incurred while venturing to the Science Center, many students have found refuge in their cozy dorm rooms. But what if the boilers broke and these heat havens became below-zero morgues? FM asked some residents of Leverett House G-tower and Matthews Hall, both of whom have come to deal with this major dilemma with ingenuity...
...said that fastidious filmmakers retreat in dismay muttering, ``Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?'' Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. ``Gross-out grosses,'' its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D--in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde--makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire...