Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...dead issue now. It has no more political value." He was only admitting the obvious. For Iranians, it is the war with Iraq that has become the overriding issue in the power struggle between the right-wing clergy and moderate President Abolhassan Banisadr. To the clergymen's dismay, Banisadr has emerged as a popular hero. As commander-in-chief of the armed forces, he has received much of the credit for Iran's surprising resistance...
...about $57 billion, mostly to pay for OPEC oil. The crushing debt has hindered Brazil's attempts to expand its industrial base and has helped push its annual inflation rate above 100%. For political reasons, the government has refused to borrow from the International Monetary Fund, to the dismay of many bankers...
...dismay of Reagan's New Right followers, the lists of candidates for top jobs are dominated by moderate-conservative veterans of the Nixon and Ford administrations. Richard Viguerie, a leading right-winger, complained angrily that "there is not a hard-core conservative in the lot. Was it the Ford-Kissinger-Rockefeller wing of the party that has been promoting Reagan for 16 years...
...church to keep the 1662 book in the "mainstream of worship." Among signers: former Prime Minister Lord Home, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, Historian Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), Conductor Sir Adrian Boult, Sculptor Henry Moore, Novelist William Golding, Lord Olivier and Glenda Jackson. Actor Paul Scofield says Britons feel "dismay" over the likely loss of so much "that is deeply poetic and influential in our language...
...union representing Harvard's dining hall workers, knows too well the feeling of being tugged two ways. As a negotiator at last spring's contract sessions, he recognized the need to get his constituency what it wanted--a wage increase in an inflationary era. But he watched in dismay as Harvard attached a proviso to its three-year deal calling for successive 10-, 9- and 8-per-cent raises. The University said it would contract out the Harkness dining hall at the Law School. To its credit, Harvard assured that none of the Harkness employees were laid off. But Walden...