Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Somers) marry and merge their respective three-child broods; the kids are at one another's throats instantly. In NBC's Flesh 'n' Blood, a yuppie lawyer (Lisa Darr) is visited by her long-lost brother (David Keith), a hillbilly layabout, and his two unwashed kids. Much to her dismay (and ours), they promptly move in. In CBS's < The Royal Family, Redd Foxx plays a sour Atlanta mailman whose sunset years with his wife (Della Reese) are interrupted by yet another band of unwanted relatives: their daughter and grandchildren from Philadelphia. It's hard to know which is more...
...answer, he kept demonstrating to the astonishment of all and the dismay of many...
...take a vicarious peek at Beverly Hills decadence while keeping their moral distance. When Brandon lands a dream job as cabana boy at a swank beach club, he is forced to quit his low-paying job at a diner without giving advance notice, much to his boss's dismay. After wrestling with his conscience, Brandon returns to the diner and offers to stay another week. No problem, says the owner; he has already forgiven Brandon and hired a replacement...
...financial sanctions imposed by the U.S., the European Community, the Commonwealth and other groups of nations hammered home to South African whites, as probably nothing else could have, the fact that their country had become a global outlaw, judged unfit for membership in the world community of nations. Their dismay at that knowledge accelerated the process of dismantling apartheid at least a bit, and perhaps with somewhat less violence than would have been the case without sanctions. Now that the process seems irreversible, sanctions have done their job and can mostly be lifted...
Politicians are learning, to their dismay, just how much time and money will be needed. As little as a year ago, they talked of closing the gap between east and west in two or three years. By this spring they were saying four or five. Lutz Hoffmann, director of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, puts the recovery time at a decade: "We calculate that about $705 billion of investment will be needed to bring the east up to western standards. That cannot possibly be accomplished in anything less than 10 years...