Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismayed to learn of what seemed a ham-fisted exercise of Yankee power: a unit of heavily armed U.S. troops closed and occupied a thriving Roman Catholic community house that a sergeant says had been "a center for Communist propaganda." Mab, a woman who worked at the facility, is upset. "It was a relief when the Americans first came," Mab says, "but this moving of us isn't so nice...
...current precarious financial balance that exists in many states could be upset by a new wave of tax revolts or an economic slump caused by the huge long-term federal deficits. For now, however, the good news has raised spirits. "The national economy will lift all boats," assures Kenneth Kirkland, an official at the National Conference of State Legislatures. "But depending on local conditions, not all boats rise at the same time...
Lest there be any confusion, "serious" and "very serious cases," as defined in our classification involved repeated behaviors, persisting after a person's attempts to stop them; implicit or the attention; and significant personal and academic or professional upset. Every case so classified would almost certainly fall well within EEOC guidelines of what constitutes sexual harassment. Many of the other incidents, classified as less serious, would also fall within the legal guidelines...
...upset by it," said John H. Smith, whose third-floor apartment at 279 Harvard Street looks out on the site where Zona was reportedly dropped. "It happened right outside my window...
...group" might try to kill Kennedy on November 22. The Miami police department sent them information, obtained by wiretap, that white racists were planning to kill Kennedy with a rifle. More bitter critics say that the reason Oswald was not taken into custody was that J. Edgar Hoover was upset with Robert Kennedy, who was in Hoover's territory with his organized-crime crusade...