Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bonn, a West German government spokesman declared his Cabinet's "dismay" at the toll of human life in the South Atlantic; Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason...
DIED. Don Wilson, 81, orotund announcer and foil for Jack Benny on radio and TV for more than 30 years; of a blood clot to the brain; in Palm Springs, Calif. In his most familiar routine, Wilson protested, "But, Jack," in mock dismay at not being able to get the commercial started...
Harvard never divested from Gulf. But in May of that year, Harvard cast its first proxy votes against the management of a company in its portfolio. Much to the dismay of Bennet, the Corporation voted to back proposals asking both GM and Ford to disclose information about their business practices. And in the fall, Bok created the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) and the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), which have guided the the University's ethical investment policy ever since...
Editors Richard Lowitt and Maureen Beasley, too, begin their book on Lorena Hickok with such an epigram of economic dismay. In the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
When the mystery of the anonymous official was resolved, a spokesman said that Reagan's remarks were "in jest" and that he agreed with Haig's view. But Haig, by then, was restating his position in response to right-whig dismay over the possibility of involving the Soviets in a Central American settlement. His clarification: "Salvador is at once a global, a regional and a local problem. That does not mean, nor did it ever mean, that the Soviets, or the Cubans for that matter, must be invited to the negotiating table." Said an aide: "The boss...