Word: dismays
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Abortion doesn't come up in daily conversation very often. Every once in a while there is a flurry of abortion debates in the media. After the murder of yet another abortion doctor everyone pipes up with opinions, whether it be dismay or glee. When University Health Services' rather innocuous policies were revealed, a handful of students expressed different sentiments...
Resnicoff disagreed, saying that the protestgenerated spontaneous "support for communityfeeling." She said that some residents tried to"make [the event] playful" by expressing dismay atthe gong beatings...
...Disney World is a private enterprise that has but a passing influence on most families' lives. But one of Disney's newest ventures attempts to extend its brand of corporate manufactured reassurance into public, not private, spaces, a concept that has made critics more temperate than Hiaasen cringe in dismay...
...through the course catalog. Usually I comb the government department's course offerings and then skip all the way to sociology. Not this time. This time I stop at the Romance languages and decide right there to add Spanish A to my course load. Since then--and to my dismay--I've several times expressed a craving for some "real" Mexican food as opposed to "yo quiero Taco Bell." I've also looked at some Mexican literature and got interested in the history...
...Negotiations have been stalled since the beginning of the year, when Arafat accepted a U.S. compromise proposal over Israeli troop withdrawal from the West Bank and Netanyahu -- to the U.S.'s dismay -- refused. "The only way you get any movement in this process is by setting deadlines," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "But the last time the U.S. set a deadline for the Israelis, it backfired on Clinton because he wasn't prepared to risk a backlash from pro-Israel interests in the U.S. So the real question remains whether the White House is prepared to force the two sides...