Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years out of law school, Biden ran successfully as an underdog candidate for the local county council. Even before he took his council seat, he was planning his next campaign, against Caleb Boggs, Delaware's Republican Senator who was generally regarded as unbeatable. After two years of campaigning, Biden upset Boggs by just 1% of the vote in 1972. At age 30, Biden would become the Senate's youngest member...
Commenting on the University's acquisitions in the Square, local realtor Jean LeVaux, president of LeVaux Real Estate, says "the developers looking for property to develop are upset because [these parcels] are no longer open to the highest bidder. The general public feels shut out. And realtors lose out because these properties are automatically removed from the public domain...
Infinitely more damaging to public trust were the President's deceptive and contradictory statements on selling arms to Iran and negotiating for hostages. Jerome Wiesner, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reflects deep concern when he says, "I am very upset by the ethical behavior that will make people believe that lying by our Government is natural." Confessing errors has never, of course, been part of the Reagan magic. For six years, as America's debt soared past $2 trillion, the President refused to admit that George Bush was right when he said during the 1980 primaries that...
CONVICTED. Steven Bowman, 27, and Darren Norman, 20; of assault, after being charged with slashing the face of Model Marla Hanson, 25, last June at the behest of her former landlord, Makeup Artist Steven Roth, 28, who was convicted of assault last December; in New York City. Roth, upset by Hanson's refusal to date him and by her demand that he return her $850 apartment deposit, had promised Bowman and Norman an apartment as payment for their crime. All three men face up to 15 years in prison...
...hundreds of thousands of West Europeans protested the deployment of the U.S. intermediate- range missiles that the allied governments had requested. Now, with the U.S. and the Soviet Union inching closer to an arms deal that would remove both American and Soviet missiles from Europe, some allies are upset by the development. Last week Kenneth Adelman, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency director, summed up American exasperation with Europe's apparent inconsistency. Said Adelman in an interview with the West German weekly Stern: "We have a perception that they complain when we deploy missiles, and complain when we talk...