Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added, "I'm really upset that David decided to do it...I see us losing the best voice...
...second quarter of 1987 to $117,900 in the same period this year. Denver builders complain that HUD, by selling single-family homes in Denver for as little as $5,500, has contributed to the decline of the area's housing market. The agency itself is upset that some people have been defaulting on their FHA loans, then buying bargain houses at HUD auctions...
Steadily, if not always impressively, the U.S. basketball teams plowed through their preliminary games in defense of the Olympic championships they won in 1984. The men were inconsistent, crushing Spain 97-53, Egypt 102-35 and China 108-57, but struggling to subdue Canada 76-70. Against Brazil, which upset the Americans in last year's Pan Am Games final, the U.S. trailed early. But a suffocating full-court defense led by Vernell ("Bimbo") Coles and muscular moves under the basket by J.R. Reid shook the Brazilians' rhythm. By half time the U.S. had moved ahead...
...third of his 100-meter races underwater, broke his own record in the prelims and predicted with no excessive bashfulness that it would take another world record for him to win a gold. But he got a bad start that evening in the final, faded, and in a startling upset was beaten in slow time by another submariner, Japan's Daichi Suzuki...
...prepare to march in, an Englishman sporting his I SPEAK ENGLISH button (ah, that British irony!), the Jamaicans holding their heads high while across the world their island was being laid waste by Hurricane Gilbert. They continue at the Han River festival, where an American pulls off a major upset in an ineffable local version of bingo, in an area in which ruddy-faced stallkeepers wave customers toward pungent wild-boar barbecues, and the only signs in English say DRAFT BEER. And they reach their climax at the buffet breakfast in the Intercontinental Hotel, where they catch a glimpse...