Word: upset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terkel (Working); Maggie Kuhn of the Gray Panthers in Philadelphia; Harriet Barlow of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in Washington; Archibald Gillies, former head of the John Hay Whitney Foundation in New York City; and Political Strategist Don Rose, who earlier this year helped Jane Byrne win her upset victory over Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic...
Congressmen and Senators of both parties were upset. Said a Democratic congressional leader: "The wholesale resignations smack of p.r. gimmickry, misplaced machismo. I thought that he had his ship pointed in the right direction, but..." Said House Republican Leader John Rhodes: "It's crazy. It's just like what Richard Nixon did in "72." Others were upset about the targets of Carter's purge. Said Democratic Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas: "Good grief! They're cutting down the biggest trees and keeping the monkeys...
...loyalty." And not only to Carter; Califano had been at odds with Hamilton Jordan almost from the beginning. Califano has been faulted for not enthusiastically supporting Carter's bill to create a Department of Education separate from HEW. His case also was not helped by his antismoking campaign. It upset Carter's supporters in tobacco-growing North Carolina, where cars are plastered with bumper stickers that proclaim: CALIFANO IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH. Nor did the Georgians overlook Califano's long friendship with Ted Kennedy...
...dollar, began ringing incessantly. European central bankers and Finance Ministry officials demanded to know what was going on. Solomon could not provide inside information on what would happen next. Deprived of top-level advice, foreign money managers followed their instincts and bought some dollars to head off any major upset in the international exchange markets. The Federal Reserve Board also poured some $2 billion into the foreign exchanges to buy dollars, and at week's end the slide was stemmed. Still, in the past month the dollar has lost roughly 5% of its value against the West German mark...
...fact, Hamilton was ousted after only 18 months because he upset the man who had built ITT into the world's biggest conglomerate, its demanding, autocratic chairman, Harold Geneen, 69. Hamilton's offense? Nothing more than some modest restructuring of the company into five operating divisions, and a bit of judicious pruning of corporate deadwood that had grown up under Geneen...