Word: aghast
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Developers are aghast. Their most frequent complaint is that the state government should not become so much involved in any individual's private business. But Vermont intends to go even farther; next year its legislators will consider an Adirondack-style plan to order and shape future development, and thus save the state's greatest resource: unspoiled land...
...American living abroad, I am aghast when I return home to see the amount of food thrown away each week by average middle-class families in the U.S. And if less were spent on so-called junk foods (soft drinks, sweets and snacks) it seems to me that Americans could be eating steak for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meat prices are too high, but Americans are spoiled and the rest of the world is unsympathetic...
...Hell's Kitchen finally surfaced to detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union principles he espoused for all of his life before coming to Washington." Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was more succinct. Brennan, he said, was "a son of a bitch...
...usual, the farmers were among the first to arrive on the scene. Some 1,500 members of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association gathered to denounce a prospective increase in interest for REA loans. They were joined by another veteran lobby, the National Farmers Union, which is aghast at the President's abolition of the Rural Environmental Assistance Program, a durable piece of pork barrel that distributes $225 million a year among all 50 states. So successful were the lobbyists' initial efforts that the House Agriculture Committee quickly reported out a bill that would require the President...
...lush cash assets ($78 million at last count), a credit line of $100 million and a huge real estate inventory-all of which the supremely confident Bluhdorn may think he can put to better use than the supermarket chain's stodgy management. A. & P.'s bosses were aghast, and Chairman William Kane promised to oppose vigorously Bluhdorn's tender offer...