If the average taxpayer saw how their dollars were spent on inmates, they would be appalled at the waste of time, money and lives.

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The Pentagon has tried to nominate James Woolsey, a former head of the CIA, as a key player in the interim government, but some at the State Department are said to be appalled at the notion of putting a former spymaster in a foreign government.

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Changed Circumstances: Second, I believe that Scoop Jackson would be appalled at the prospect that the United States government would press forward with a Trade Agreement signed over fifteen months ago with the ancien Soviet regime as though nothing had happened in the intervening period.

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You can look at a village in Madagascar, and then at the heaps of riches displayed in the pages of this magazine, and be appalled.

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One parent of a girl at Central High, who wished not to be named, said she was "appalled" that parents and pupils were not consulted.

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