Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite those missing in action, the outlook for the team is not entirely bleak. Captain Andy Regan is in good condition and Peter Jelley, who was injured for much of last season, is in good condition. The biggest boost for the squad may be the return of Buck Logan. Sidelined last year after an operation on his heel, the senior distance specialist has finally recovered and is running in the form that makes him co-owner of the Harvard indoor two-mile record...
...faces the same bleak economic picture. Industrial recovery, as Chrysler learned, can come through close cooperation with organized labor. Yet President Reagan, formerly of the Screen Actors Guild, seems to have no more regard for unions than his counterpart across the Atlantic Reagan's wholesale liquidation of the air controllers union. PATCO, and his proposals for a flexible minimum wage and child labor standards fly in the face of trade union principles...
...Senate, the military will probably be forced to operate under makeshift "continuing resolutions" that will simply extend funding at current levels. These are roughly $500 million less per month than Reagan wants. Hatfield also pledged to work against reauthorizing spending for the C.B.I, if the bill is vetoed. These bleak prospects prompted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz to urge the President to sign the appropriations bill...
...Britain's Richard Broadhead, at 29 the youngest contender, thinks that going over the side of his 52-ft. cutter Perseverance of Medina in the tropics would be the worst thing that could happen. "In the rough southern ocean you wouldn't last a minute," is his bleak forecast. "But in the tropics you'd stick around until the sharks came and got you." Paul Rodgers, 37, of London, whose 55-ft. Spirit of Pentax is the narrowest boat in the race, has some daunting memories: he was leading the 1980 OSTAR when his boat was rammed...
...Quartets after the ensemble for which they were written, and the Violin Concerto, premiered by Isaac Stern. But his most ambitious rapprochement with the past has come not in instrumental music but in opera. The Confidence Man, with a libretto by Gene Rochberg based on Herman Melville's bleak, cynical novel, is currently on display at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico...