Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Personality. What did not work was Knudsen's concept of how a Ford president should operate. Ford's young executives have always admired G.M.'s all-around management strength, but they were startled when a G.M. man was brought in to be their boss. Their dismay increased when they discovered that Knudsen, a gentlemanly but strong-willed executive, intended to run the company practically at the plant level. Instead of sitting in his office ruling on policy, he took to haunting the Ford design center, arriving there as early as 7:15 a.m. He ordered one change...
...bring a pro-business philosophy to the FCC, which has recently upset some TV-station owners by withholding automatic renewal of broadcast licenses. On the other hand, some liberal lawmakers, who recall Burch's heavy-handed management of Goldwater's campaign, expressed shock at his nomination. Their dismay raises a possibility that the FCC's new chairman may run into trouble before winning Senate confirmation...
...than equal to the task: the creation of historical documents that read like suspense novels. This time the odds were against him. White's best reportage delineates character; portraiture is his forte. In 1968, events overshadowed individuals. It was a year of frustration and disruption, of groping and dismay. Many were killed, the timid endured, the vague were exalted, the hesitant lost. Finally the managers stepped in, good and gray but hardly the stuff to invigorate the imagination...
...York Times with the U.S. National Highway Safety Bureau disclosed last month that the Japanese Big Two-Toyota and Nissan-had been secretly recalling defective cars sold in the U.S. Alarmed, the Japanese Diet demanded that all twelve Japanese automakers reveal the extent of engineering flaws. Public dismay grew as both the press and the national police began investigating accidents that could have been caused by defective cars...
...exile in Ireland, far from the men jostling for his place, such minor adjustments to his grand designs must not have seemed too unexpected or unpalatable. But in one throwaway line at the end of the campaign, Georges Pompidou surely caused the old general to bristle with anger and dismay. It was an observation that exposed as perhaps nothing else could the gap between De Gaulle's view of France and the world and that of Pompidou-and between the France of De Gaulle and that of post-De Gaulle. In examining for a French audience the destiny...