Word: dismays
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...windows and throwing Molotov cocktails. More than 1,000 protesters barricaded themselves in Athens Polytechnic University. After two days and nights of disturbances, peace returned, at a cost of one dead, more than 100 injured, and a political casualty, Government Spokesman Costas Laliotis, a left-winger who resigned in dismay at the handling of the crisis. NORTHERN IRELAND Extremists Unleash Their Fury...
...book is Housewife "Sheina Konigsberg," not a born-and-bred Hasid but a baalat teshuvah (female "returnee"). Financially comfortable and reared in a Jewish family that was only moderately observant, Sheina joined a supportive community of Lubavitchers in the Midwest after a divorce from her first husband. To the dismay of her children, Sheina subsequently entered an arranged marriage and moved to Brooklyn with Husband "Moshe," a widower with deep Lubavitcher roots...
...trust. The mystery in this account is why Stockman did not lay his fears of impending financial disaster squarely on the President's desk. Or why, if others thwarted his honest intentions, he did not resign. His self-exoneration--describing how he was flitting here and there in righteous dismay, confronting all those mindless Californians around Reagan, struggling to "work from within" to avert the catastrophe he so clearly saw before him--does not go down well. He confesses to being too enamored of power. Yet he leaves no doubts that he considered his morality of a higher order...
Smiling and eager to hit the beach, 79 Australian tourists streamed off a Garuda Indonesian Airways jet last week on the tropical island of Bali. Their joy turned to dismay when Indonesian authorities denied them entry because they lacked visas, which vacationing Australians are not normally required to present...
Foreign firms too are vulnerable. Russian tax authorities recently slapped BP's joint oil venture in Russia, TNK-BP, with a $1 billion back-tax bill for 2001. The move has caused dismay at BP in London and prompted chief executive John Browne to visit Moscow last month, where he met with Putin. The Russian leader reassured Browne, "We were not mistaken when we supported your decision two years ago" and praised the company for being "a good corporate citizen." Meanwhile, the Japanese tobacco company JTI, which makes Winston and Camel brands at a $400 million state...