Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget, the first version of which is due to be submitted next month, is already under way. Stockman has been urging draconian cuts in domestic programs, perhaps so Reagan can later ask for lesser, though still hefty, reductions without seeming hardhearted. Cabinet officials have begun to declare their dismay publicly and most are taking their protests to the President instead of acquiescing to Stockman's demands. Congress also is almost certain to balk. Says Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania, a savvy Republican on the House Appropriations Committee: "We'll not see a repeat next year of what...
...SHARE the majority's dismay at recent curtailments of civil liberties in Poland. I, too, deplore the attempt to bust the free trade union Solidarity and support international talks on the Polish crisis. But I cannot support the majority's call for economic sanctions against the Soviet Union. Any punitive action directed toward the Soviet Union will not improve the situation in Poland, nor will it bring about hoped-for changes in Soviet policies around the world. Soviet oppression, like that of the U.S., cannot be stopped by an embargo or a trade cutback...
...Harvard analysts reacted with dismay and pessimism to reports early this morning that Poland's Communist leaders had declared martial law and initiated a long-awaited crackdown on the country's Solidarity free trade union movement...
...Williams drew virtually the same percentage of switches from both Labor and the Tories. The Labor defections reflected the dismay in the party over the intense left-right struggle. The Tories' poor showing was seen as a repudiation of Prime Minister Thatcher's monetarist economic policies and a protest against the country's record unemployment...
According to the official release, the president "expressed particular dismay at the possible suggestion that his administration--or any members of his administration--might seek to mislead the American public...