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Word: bleaknesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given that the Princeton defense owns a goals-against average of less than one, the halftime outlook assumed bleak proportions...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Takes a Licking From Tigers As Princeton Booters Roar to 4-1 Win | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...agents (at present there are only two assigned to the state). The Coast Guard is also woefully outmanned: it has only nine cutters to patrol the entire New England coastline. According to Edward Drinan, a DEA agent stationed in Portland, drug smuggling in Maine is "an everyday occurrence." His bleak assessment: "We are getting our pants beat off. There's no doubt about the fact we just can't cope with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The New England Connection | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...student leaders last March. The trouble began when an auxiliary policeman killed a student who had joined in a leftist attack on a moderate Catholic group. The boy's death sent thousands of students out of overcrowded Bologna University, whose 60,000 volatile undergraduates face a bleak future in Italy's recession-bound economy. For three days, the students occupied a 20-block commercial area, manhandling citizens, looting stores and burning cars in an orgy of youthful anarchism that was unprecedented, even in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Big Brawl in Bologna | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

Shahak is anything but optimistic about the chances for a political solution in the near future. He anticipates war within the next year and paints a bleak scenario...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Dissidence in the Promised Land | 9/29/1977 | See Source »

...could further darken the already bleak academic job market for new Ph. D.s, make it more difficult for universities to renew their faculties with younger academics, especially minorities and women, and add a new burden to university finances, they said...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Retirement Bill Sparks Controversy | 9/28/1977 | See Source »

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