Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four hour drive down bleak turnpikes, turnpikes bleak because the night was still upon them; a four hour drive of uncomfortable phrases and strained laughs...
...Bleak Memories. Shula and his deadly Dolphins are the wildest thing to hit Miami since Nick the Greek and a team of shills took Oilman Harry Sinclair for $900,000 at a memorable craps party. Car bumpers are plastered with "I Am a Dol-Fan" stickers; "Dial-a-Dolphin" programs are stealing the play away from local disk jockeys. Raving fans pack the Orange Bowl (capacity: 80,010) to wave white handkerchiefs at their rugged young superteam. The reason is simple: more than anything Miami loves a winner, and Shula's Dolphins are the biggest winners in pro football...
Perhaps most important, Harvard's economic prospects are much less bleak than they seemed as recently as last year, when the University's deficit almost doubled, reaching $1.4 million by the end of fiscal year...
...BEEN A BLEAK FALL for the Harvard Coop. The federal government has launched a probe into Coop "intimidation" of union organizers, apparent deception has surfaced in dealings with record companies, a past controller has hurled an $80,000 lawsuit against the Society to claim benefits allegedly due, a former director is seeking to nullify last spring's election results, more than half of the Coop employees have requested a vote on unionization, and 1971 changes in the Coop pension program have been shown to greatly worsen the lot of newly hired workers. The number and nature of these events pose...
Summing up press coverage of the campaign Columbia Journalism Review Editor Alfred Balk lamented: "My heart bleeds for our trade." Yet there were some praiseworthy exceptions by reporters and writers who dug beneath the bleak surface to uncover new material and insights. The greatest impact was probably made by the Knight Newspapers' Clark Hoyt, who unearthed Tom Eagleton's medical history. Laurels also go to the Washington Post's investigative team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, young reporters who diligently pursued the Watergate affair and, during much of October, made daily national headlines with their findings. Other outstanding performances...