Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...split since last summer over what to do about a successor for Griffiths. His messy firing in June 1980 of his own heir apparent, Maurice Valente, who had been brought into the company only six months earlier from a top job at ITT, had angered several outside directors. Their dismay merely intensified when Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, chairman of NBC, RCA's network subsidiary, was let go in even clumsier fashion a few weeks later...
Though the deal would save the Times, the announcement of the would-be rescuer has been greeted with dismay. Britons are already familiar with Murdoch's saucy Sun and sleazy News of the World, and the great worry is that the Times will itself adopt what the paper just four months ago described as "the breathless, grubby vision of the world inherent in the Murdoch style." Tongue tucked in cheek, Daily Mirror Columnist Keith Waterhouse told readers not to fret. "The girls," he wrote, "will appear in the Times Literary Supplement wearing fishnet stockings and mortarboard...
...Nixon's muck-up could have delayed their eventual birth and triumph. Sick and tired of the vast, clogged federal machine; sick and tired of being broke; fed up with useless programs, crime, waste, guilt; not to mention shame in the eyes of the world?derision from our enemies, dismay from our allies?fed up with all that, and to put a fine point on it, fed up with Jimmy Carter, what else would the nation do but hang a right...
...dead issue now. It has no more political value." He was only admitting the obvious. For Iranians, it is the war with Iraq that has become the overriding issue in the power struggle between the right-wing clergy and moderate President Abolhassan Banisadr. To the clergymen's dismay, Banisadr has emerged as a popular hero. As commander-in-chief of the armed forces, he has received much of the credit for Iran's surprising resistance...
...about $57 billion, mostly to pay for OPEC oil. The crushing debt has hindered Brazil's attempts to expand its industrial base and has helped push its annual inflation rate above 100%. For political reasons, the government has refused to borrow from the International Monetary Fund, to the dismay of many bankers...