Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...UPSET BY RISING taxes and angered by the inefficiency of state government, Bay State voters seem in a mood to approve Question 2 on next Tuesday's ballot, a tax-cutting referendum popularly known as Proposition 2 1/2. Should they succumb to that temptation, however, they would be virtually extinguishing local government in the Commonwealth, trusting only to faint hopes for tax reform to save Massachusetts from disaster...
...Harvard tied the top seed but there's no question that they are the lowest seeded team," Zenaty said. "It would be a big upset if they were to beat...
...know they are right. Ronald Reagan seems no fiercer an enemy than Ted Kennedy, whom Carter comfortably defeated here. A little jaded, Carter's workers take comfort in his recent upsurge in the national polls, and go through the motions, driven by the impossible dream of a New Hampshire upset. But their efforts are tinged with despair. They hope to see Walter Cronkite lift his eyebrows and declare, "In a tighter race than expected, Ronald Reagan barely held on to New Hampshire's three electoral votes...
...Logically without Murphy running we shouldn't be upset," McCurdy said. "But honestly I think we have more potential then we showed...
Wyatt said the most likely place for conflict of interest could rise "at an operational level." explaining that hospital owners might be upset with energy being supplied to their hospitals by a plant which they were in charge of running...