Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most American cities, all the tenants could really do about the rent increases is get upset. If they got upset enough, they could move away...
...student, Michael O. Minor '87, expressed characteristic dismay. "Sage's prices are way too high, they're a rip-off. I'm very upset about this, he said...
Mapam leaders feel that Peres has made too many concessions to the right-wing Likud bloc and are upset by position papers, drafted jointly by Labor and Likud, to guide the unity government's policies. Initially, Peres had wanted the agreement to specify that any new Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank would have to be approved by two-thirds of the Cabinet, but he is now leaning toward a simple majority vote. "It was a very sad meeting," said Mapam Leader Victor Shentov, after Peres told him of the plan to share the prime ministership...
...fact, the nub of the talk between the two camps has less to do with strategy than with wings: Jackson wants his own airplane during the campaign. The candidate's relations with blacks were further jolted when Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, upset by the Mondale staffs resistance to outside advice, said the campaign was run by "smartass white boys who think they know...
...operates the Suez Canal, had two prime suspects, Iran and Libya. The Iranian government of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini was known to be angry and frustrated over its inability to stop its enemy Iraq from attacking tankers using Iranian oil facilities in the Persian Gulf. The Iranians were also upset about Iraq's intention to export more of its own oil via planned pipelines through Jordan and Saudi Arabia. So it made sense to suppose that Iran might have planted mines in the Red Sea as a way of retaliating against each of those countries as well as against...