Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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France has maintained friendly relations with Nicaragua out of the conviction that such sympathy will help keep the country from moving into the Soviet orbit. Despite U.S. dismay, it has even sold "defensive" weapons to the Sandinista government. Reagan raised this issue when President François Mitterrand visited Washington last week. Said Reagan: "We discussed all facets of it." Mitterrand said that the warm and cordial meeting was too short to resolve any disputes over Central America. Explained Mitterrand later: "Our analysis is different from the start. I think these people must come out of the economic misery...
...scrappy NOMATEP coalition--lacking legal and technical expertise--repeatedly grabbed the ear and approval of judges and regulators. Harvard was repeatedly told to prove that the diesel engines for the plant--which would be the largest of its kind in North America--would not choke Boston. To Harvard's dismay, the hearings triggered a spiral of unforeseen delays and escalating costs...
Caught off guard, environmentalists at first welcomed the plan as a peace overture from the embattled Secretary. But their approval turned to dismay when they examined the fine print. Said John McComb, director of the Washington, D.C., office of the Sierra Club: "To say that we were deceived by Watt's proposal would be an understatement. This is one of the worst things that has happened to the environment since Watt himself...
Before the Harvard wrestling team could finish celebrating its best season in history, the joyous screams of victory turned into groans of dismay as the Crimson was stripped Wednesday of its first Ivy League title because of a technical weight violation in a meet last month. The ruling by Ivy League commissioner Jim Litvac changed Harvard's 24-16 triumph over Columbia on February 13 into a 22-20 loss, giving the Lions a 4-0 1 record in the League, and dropping Harvard into a three-way tie with Yale and Cornell for second place...
...Corporation first moved to retract this concession after being forced to divest $50 million in Citibank debt securities following the announcement of the bank's participation in a consortium loan to South Africa in September 1980. Much to the Corporation's dismay, Harvard's commendable action received unexpectedly widespread press coverage and proved highly embarrassing to Citibank and the South African regime. Soon after, Citibank dispatched a representative to consult with the Corporation and lobby University officials to relax their present policy. The Corporation responded by applying pressure on the ACSR to approve the repeal of the 1978 concession...