Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 1945. Painton, then an 18-year-old private first class, eventually wound up in Germany as part of an intelligence unit, where he edited rambling interrogation reports on high-ranking German prisoners. "I found my year of occupation duty unpleasant," says Painton. "I still retain a sense of shock at the spectacle of a broken, defeated nation...
...Bank officials warned that the latest jump in American interest rates will add $1.25 billion a year to the Third World's already crushing debt. In Paris, European moneymen lashed out at rising U.S. borrowing costs. On both sides of the Atlantic last week, such concerns were sending shock waves through the money world. Said Bank Analyst Stephen Berman of L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin: "The U.S. banking system is suffering from a crisis of confidence...
...said of Seabrook, "What is being built was going to save enough oil to pay for itself and in time it might. But that may, not occur for seven to 10 years, if ever-so what customers see in their bills when the plant comes on line is rate shock...
...that faculty are daily bombarded with the temptation of young women who are so physically desirable that they cannot be ignored. People typically respond to a report of sexual harassment by asking if the victim is pretty. After hearing a coed's complaint, deans and department heads frequently express shock at a faculty member's behavior by commenting. "She isn't even that attractive. "The attempt to establish the woman's beauty as a cause of sexual harassment diverts attention from the real power issue. It is a standard was of discounting the professor's responsibility and shifting the blame...
DeNicola said the first reactions at the Winter Park, Florida campus were ones of "shock and puzzlement--as to why a person who had published 70 articles, many in very reputable journals, should have plagiarised a one and a half page piece...