Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...procedures had been violated in the committee's selection. In February, Rogers admitted that Hartman's challenge had been correct, and announced that the Rogers Committee would again attempt to form a committee following the ad hoc procedures. Hartman was "pleased" that the GSD recognized its errors, but expressed dismay that "they plan to go through the same drawn out process again...
...Energy demands and environmental goals are on a collision course," says Energy Expert Freeman. "We've got plenty of energy for the present. What we're running out of is clean energy." To the dismay of electrical-utility executives, the new environmental laws, added to the older state and local regulations, now require considerable paper work before utilities can even start the new plants they say they must build to prevent future blackouts. The Duke Power Co., for example, recently complained that it had to get 67 different licenses and permits before it could start the Keowee-Toxaway...
...license has long seemed a permanent possession for most broadcasters. Though the law required periodic review of a station's performance, its right to continue using the air waves was rarely questioned, and the Federal Communications Commission tended to rubber-stamp most license renewals. No more. To the dismay of the broadcasting industry, citizen groups and rival commercial interests are posing increasingly numerous and serious challenges to the near perpetual license...
...1960s, they seemed a sensible solution to the problem of soaring education costs. The loans, backed by state and federal authorities but issued by private institutions at 7% interest, came due within a year after the student left school and were repayable within ten years. Now, to the dismay of financial authorities, the delinquency rate is soaring (as high as 9½% in the case of one major bank, compared with a standard adult rate of only 2%). The reasons most commonly cited: jobs are hard to find, and some students are simply loath to work or to pay debts...
What could they say? What do we say? Our machines have outraced our minds, and we are unable to comprehend the evil that our tools accomplish. It is easy to react to the ugliness close at hand. It is easy to share the dismay of the college president surveying the wreckage of his occupied office. But the greater horror eludes us. The Jews were slaughtered nearby, the Vietnamese are killed thousands of miles away: the lesson is the same. With a bit of government cosmetics, suffering can be forgotten if it is kept at arm's length. As evil becomes...