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...instead strikingly reminiscent of 1998, when North Korea used the same claim as an excuse to test-fire a Taepodong-1 cruise missile over the territory of regional power Japan. Fresher in the public’s memory, in the summer of 2006, North Korea ignored the dismay of regional powers South Korea, Japan, and China by firing a long range Taepodong-2 missile feared at the time to have a capability of reaching the western United States. To North Korea’s embarrassment, and the world’s relief, that missile failed after forty seconds...
...experience—academic, residential, and social—she brought both the clinical writing program and that school’s then Dean of Students Ellen M. Cosgrove from Chicago to the Charles.These changes have caught the attention and acclaim of legal institutions nationwide and have even elicited dismay from administrators at rival schools that have lost top faculty to Harvard.“Competitors don’t naturally say great things about you, but I think all this has been noticed across the world,” Kagan says.NO LONGER AN AFTERTHOUGHTDespite the structural problems that...
...dismay is tempered by excitement over a new generation of instrument makers who, utilizing research by Nagyvary and others, are producing violins, cellos and violas almost indistinguishable in quality from a Stradivarius. Lin himself often plays on a violin made by a Brooklyn-based luthier, Sam Zygmuntowicz. Idaho-based cello maker Christopher Dungey has made instruments for the world's top cellists. Lin says, "We don't know whether the modern instruments we're using will be, after 100 years of vigorous playing, equal to Stradivarius. They already sound pretty darn good right...
Fleischer, Ari • dismay of at calling on by Obama of reporter for The Huffington Post...
...time to New Jersey’s inaugural ball (the “Garden State Inaugural Gala”). Obama went in and out of several balls, but he stayed at ours the whole time. I tried to leave with him at the end, but to my dismay, New Jersey had other plans for the life-size cardboard cutout...