Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last of the undefeated Ivy elevents fell and pre-season favorite Yale continued its dismal slide Saturday, once again juggling the standings as the Ivy League football season crossed the halfway mark...
...situation is no better with the line's 4,500 aging locomotives. Largely as a result of frequent breakdowns and long delays, the on-time arrival of shipments has fallen from 75% in 1976 to 65%-a dismal performance that angers shippers and causes them to switch to trucks...
...Crimson came out flat and got worse as the game progressed. Coach George Ford went with the 4-4-2 alignment that he had employed in the dismal early part of the season, leaving behind the 4-2-4 used in the wins against Cornell and Amherst...
...dismal accoutrements go on and on: America's striking lack of an electoral labor party, and in its place, "business unionism," concerned only with wages hours, benefits; America's Horatio Alger myths of upward mobility, still pervasive despite the historical evidence that demonstrates much more rigidity than pluralists or consensus historians will admit. But spare us the hot tubs and razor blades. Leftists take showers...
...Administration pledged to human rights might well re-examine U.S. policy toward Haiti and offer refugees now arriving [Aug. 7] political asylum. Unfortunately, the Haitian community here remains silent, out of fear for family and friends who remain behind. Their silence augurs a dismal future for the refugees and U.S.-Haitian relations...