Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...service and attention." Attorney Victor Jacobs, who represents La Caravelle, La Cote Basque, Le Manoir and other luxury establishments, calculates that dollar volume has slipped 15% to 20% from last year's levels. This, taken together with rising costs for labor and provisions, leads Jacobs to a bleak conclusion: "I think it might be the end of the deluxe restaurant...
...this is not very startling, nor is Sherill's bleak picture of the obstacles to reforming the system of military justice. Pointing out that changing the way the army handles its own discipline would require a revolution in its structure and mentality, Sherill suggests the obvious solutions. Move important cases into the civilian courts. Tighten up the Uniform Code of Military Justice to get rid of the vague language that sanctions arbitrary sallies against the constitutional rights of servicemen-sections like Article 134 which prohibits "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces." Sherill is also...
...military duty at 18, and can be called any time until he reaches 27. Deferments are rare. In any army, a recruit's life is uncomfortable at best. The Soviet army is no exception. The new recruit sleeps in tents in summer. In winter he sleeps in bleak barracks where he has a bunk, night table and a tiny cupboard for toilet articles. Once a week, many platoons visit the nearby steam bath (the traditional Russian form of bathing...
Although DeMichele blasted a home run to narrow the gap to 5-4 in the ninth. Harvard's chances looked bleak when sluggers Pete Bernhard and Pete Varney struck...
...bleak as it sounds." he says. "If it were an indivdual thing, it would be, but it isn't. I suppose it gets pretty brutal sometimes, but you just look ahead and say, 'we're going...