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...look with dismay at a process where I am told that what are we to do with a close to $250 million investment when I recall being assured that the decision would be at Harvard's own risk. I am angered when I recall the cavalier fashion with which my objections and those of others were dismissed by the Commissioner's office when we warned of the investment being used as a justification for an approval in the future...
...Gregory Martire, a Yankelovich vice president: "I'd be surprised if it helped, though it may soothe the women who were going to vote for him anyway." Contends a Republican national committeewoman in New England: "Announcing a future move is not enough to wipe out the mistrust and dismay many women felt after the Republican Convention." In any event, Carter, who has named 41 women to federal judgeships, has not made the same promise. But Atlanta Lawyer Griffin Bell, his former Attorney General and still an influential adviser, has named one of Carter's most likely candidates...
...think that Congress would use Reagan's plan as a starting point, and do its own things, as it always does." Thus Reagan's program is almost certain to be changed if he makes it to the White House. The prospect of altering the design does not dismay all of his advisers. Though, understandably, they will not come out and say so, even privately, some would not be unhappy to see Congress reduce the size of the tax cuts, thereby making Ronald Reagan's already scaled-down program even more modest still...
...jurors obviously believed Mel, much to the dismay of Ozzie Myers, who like the other defendants plans to appeal Said the Congressman, as he left the courtroom: "The jury was confused. I may be guilty of being an ass, but I have done nothing criminal...
THERE ARE MORE serious problems below the Faculty, among the mass of students that will fill your sections and then populate the professional schools. They did a report on race relations at Harvard last year and discovered, to the dean's and others' dismay, that one of every five students here does not respect the academic abilities of minority students they study next to. It wasn't as if minority students needed any more cause for anger; they wanted to build a Third World center, and, right or not, all they got was a committee...