Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expressions of dismay over the invitation of Powell are the latest in a series of protests from around the University relating to his vocal defense of the military's policy on homosexuals...
...summoned from lunch to an impromptu meeting at the White House. With communications director George Stephanopoulos, press secretary Dee Dee Myers and White House aide David Levy, Collingwood worked out a statement the FBI insists was intended only to guide officials responding to journalists' questions. To the FBI's dismay, the White House trumpeted it to the world...
...dismay of neighboring Saudi Arabia's conservative monarchy, the Red Sea republic of Yemen has taken a first step from one-man rule toward multiparty democracy. The General People's Congress Party, which governed North Yemen before its 1990 merger with the Marxist South, won a plurality of the 301 parliamentary seats. But in a bid to curb lawlessness and inflation, President Ali Abdullah Saleh promises a coalition government that will include the southern Yemen socialist and fundamentalist parties...
...were to begin, the main Arab participants asked for a postponement. The request seemed related to Palestinian displeasure over both Israel's closure of the occupied territories and its refusal to repatriate nearly 400 Palestinians who remain in southern Lebanon since their deportation in December. But responding to U.S. dismay, the Arabs may yet rethink their position...
...Rome fizzled, the cozy coalition system began to implode. In the past year, magistrates have uncovered a spaghetti of corruption -- illicit political payments, bribery, kickbacks and outright thievery -- so tangled that even the tolerant, rule-bending Italians have been shocked. Many watched with a mixture of glee and dismay as nearly 2,500 of the country's political and business elite, from former Prime Ministers and corporate executives to legislators and businessmen, were either arrested or notified that they were under investigation in the scandal called Tangentopoli, or "kickback cities...