Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal agents strode into the gray stone headquarters of the blue-chip Kidder, Peabody investment firm. They headed for the 18th-floor office of Richard Wigton, 52, head of the company's risk-arbitrage and over-the-counter stock-trading departments. As Kidder, Peabody employees looked on in dismay, the officers arrested Wigton, then led the stunned executive away. The charge against Wigton: conspiracy to commit illegal insider stock trading...
...Lieut. Colonel Oliver North rolls down his window to greet the watching press corps shivering in the dark. Ever cordial, the former National Security Council aide exchanges light banter with the group. A photographer warns him that an accident is already clogging commuter traffic, and North retorts in mock dismay, "You mean I have to listen to the news?" A few flashbulbs pop and North speeds down the narrow country road to U.S. Marine Corps headquarters near the Pentagon, where he has been assigned a routine desk job writing briefing memos for the Service Plans and Policy section...
...Phelps family, whose daughter is trapped in a well. The reporter on the spot, no less than his listeners, expects the incident to end happily. Everything always did on the radio, which was an even more efficient dream machine than the movies. But no. The child dies. The dismay in the announcer's voice is caused not only by an "unexpected human tragedy" but by the way reality has let down the medium...
College officials expressed dismay last September when they discovered that a 50-year old papier-mache replica of John Harvard was destroyed after the 350th ball. "I must assume that it wasn't a Harvard student who did it," Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said about the beheading...
...sooner had Jim Wright of Texas been voted into the top job in Congress last week than he called for a delay in reducing the top rate called for in the new tax-reform bill. Congressional Republicans and the Administration jumped all over him, and fellow Democrats recoiled in dismay, hearing echoes of Walter Mondale's disastrous appeal for a tax increase during the 1984 campaign. Though Wright's proposal would apply only to couples with taxable incomes exceeding $150,000, a tax hike of any kind seemed an impolitic opening gambit...