Word: depressingly
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...leave a violin case open for contributions, and though Americans are usually awkward about public handouts, enough coins and bills customarily make it into the case to provide the musicians with up to $40 a day apiece. They all look young and healthy, so they do not threaten or depress passers-by as many beggars and blind accordion players, who get spare change and sympathy but rarely an audience...
...materials at a far cheaper rate than would be possible in this country. Ignoring most of the cultural and psychological background of American expansionism, PL believes that the principal motivation of the U. S. in the Third World is to utilize foreign sources of labor in order to depress wages and working conditions-and, in some cases, break strikes-at home...
Mena is a reserve forward on the left side of the Harvard attack. Playing behind Solomon Gomez and Pete Bogovich might depress most soccer players, but Mena has thought about his position and realizes his value to the team as a substitute...
Moreover, the strike is likely to trim down any third-quarter economic upturn (see box, page 72). One consequence is that the industrial-production index, which declined in August for the first time in five months, will fall further. If the strike lasts more than six weeks, it will depress many businesses indirectly connected with the auto industry. In that case, lower corporate profits and more unemployment will sink the federal budget deeper in the red, increasing the prospects for a tax increase. The Nixon Administration expects that the strike will be over in six to eight weeks...
Complaints like these have been heard almost from the days when the first assembly line started rolling. In fact, the conditions that so depress Belcher are not as bad as they once were. Under union pressure, companies have made some improvements. Shifts are a bit shorter now than the 3:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. stint that Walter Reuther worked at Ford in 1927. Over the years, the union has won regular relief breaks, the system of roving relief men, and doors on toilets. Some workers who do especially dirty jobs such as painting, now get company-paid special clothing...