Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emissions trading and across-the-board cutbacks, and no one would budge on what the goals should be. For a week, more than 2,200 delegates from 161 countries spun their rhetorical wheels in a grueling series of meetings, while about 6,500 nonvoting observers and reporters watched in dismay...
Terkel also expressed dismay at the pervasive silence that is destroying American community...
Community members expressed their dismay that the Holmes Realty Trust was planning to evict several small businesses in the Central Square area...
Reading this book is a depressing experience. In part that is because of its relentless descriptions of the sordid private world of the Kennedy presidency, a world that--although long familiar--never loses its capacity to dismay. But what is even more depressing is to see such shoddy and careless arguments and such self-serving credulity coming from a celebrated investigative reporter...
That's why, when Clinton finally laid out his plan from a podium at the National Geographic Society in Washington, so many people recoiled in dismay. The proposal Clinton described as "far-reaching" and "meaningful" would supposedly roll back U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to where they were in 1990, but would not do so until sometime between 11 and 16 years from now. Yet back in 1992 the U.S., along with most other countries, had signed a treaty committing industrial nations to such a rollback by the year 2000--a point not lost on delegates...