Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deficit, year by year. Instead, Beame presented a nine-page outline. Among other things, he proposed to trim thousands of more employees through attrition, continue the wage freeze for two more years, and try to save on equipment purchases, building rentals and capital construction. But to the dismay of the board members, many of them top businessmen, the document was maddeningly vague...
Even so, the crises left the city's overall fiscal situation still worse than before. The supply of financial tricks to keep New York afloat is just about exhausted, and the state's credit has worsened. To officials' dismay, Moody's Investors Service last week lowered its rating on New York State general-obligation bonds, from A a to A 1, which could cost millions of dollars in higher interest. At the same time, Moody's knocked down its rating on New York City bonds by two grades, from...
Except for one bried foray into Last Tango in Paris the superb player never even touched upon a single request for his old music--not even Encuentros--to his audience's dismay...
During the 1960s a new kind of artist seemed to be emerging in London: pictor transatlanticus. Amid mutterings of dismay about Coca-Colonization, Anthony Caro, Richard Hamilton, Richard Smith and others addressed themselves to New York City as their elders had directed their genuflections to Paris. "To have worked in New York did make a tremendous difference," Smith recalls. "It set you at a certain distance from other English painters. You could never pick up again with artists who hadn't been there, except as friends. You had a different set of references...
...political conservative, Khandakar is said to favor closer ties with Pakistan. Late last week Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became the first to recognize the new government. But the reaction in India was one of dismay and grief over Mujib's death. Said a government spokesman: "We held him in high esteem in India as one of the outstanding personalities of our time...