Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bailey said that he was more upset about innocent defendants who were convicted because for every three guilty persons acquitted, 20 innocent people are convicted...
...literary Senator selected the Granite State's primary to challenge former president Lyndon B. Johnson in the winter of 1968, and he scored a startling upset that political pollsters, who generally read computer printouts more carefully than sonnets, failed to predict...
...while mollified by Carter's insistence on a full-fledged peace settlement (including trade, tourism, etc.), were perturbed by the notion of agreeing to give up virtually all the territory even before negotiations begin. The Arabs were pleased by the implication of nearly total Israeli withdrawal, but were upset by the notion of foreign forces on their soil. Rabin, who faces stiff opposition in the May election, professed to be happy...
...think the American public is basically suspicious of the Russians. Almost all of the burden of proof is on the proponent of the arms-control agreement. That does not trouble me; it is the way it should be. That is why I am not at all upset about the debate [over my appointment]. If it gives any signal to the Soviet Union, it certainly is a signal that the U.S. Senate is going to view with considerable seriousness any proposal that is advanced to them. They are not going to be easily receptive to anything that is negotiated...
Each country has its gripes. As Carter heard last week from visiting Prime Minister James Callaghan, Britain is upset by New York City's reluctance to grant landing rights to the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic jetliner (see THE WORLD). French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is even more piqued. The West Germans fear that Carter's pressure to get them to cancel a sale of nuclear reactors to Brazil will result in damage to their reputation abroad as dependable deliverers...