Word: dismaying
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Whereas Willwerth, a 28-year TIME veteran, has covered many of those issues for us for years, Lafferty is one of our newer correspondents, having come aboard last January. She has given her home phone number to virtually everyone involved in the case-and, to her mixed gratification and dismay, many sources use it at almost any hour of the day or night. "Catching them at less harried moments means being around early and being around late," she says...
...connection with the new University Campaign, I received the University's latest plea, its cassette tape, "Harvard College, the Connection We Share," with more dismay than usual. My apprehension, however, soon yielded to curiosity; I opened the tape to examine its list of contents. Imagine my shock, in the portion of the tape devoted to "Teaching and Learning," at seeing the name of the professor who had achieved notoriety on campus and in the national press during my own undergraduate years for his sexual harassment of women in the government department...
...strategy may be, the government plainly does not retain much hope for protection from the U.N. "We cannot live through another winter of siege," Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey told reporters in Vienna. Britain and France, the main contributors to the U.N. military force in Bosnia, reacted with dismay. French President Jacques Chirac, on his first visit to Washington since taking office, cautioned Sarajevo that an offensive "would be a grave error." He joined Bill Clinton in an appeal to the Bosnians for a cease-fire...
Lawyers may also be following the Simpson case in dismay, but they are hard put to come up with any solutions. "What can you do?" asks Gerald Chaleff, past president of the L.A. County Bar Association. "Socialized lawyers? You can't bring everyone down to the lowest denominator." Perhaps the impetus for reform at the top of the heap, as well as at the bottom, will only come after cases such as O.J.'s demonstrate that too much money doesn't just subvert the justice system, it can stop it in its tracks...
Nonetheless, some of the staff's dismay leached into the final 74-page resolution. At one point, for example, the report cites a memorandum from an attorney who had managed Murdoch's initial FCC application, which states that Fox's ownership structure is "arguably vulnerable to challenge" and that it is therefore "paramount" to avoid any change that "would potentially invite re-examination" by the commission -- a memo known among commission staff members as the "somewhat smoking gun." The commission resolved that this memo "plainly indicates" uncertainty existed about the ownership structure but that otherwise it offered no proof...