Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson golfers registered only one sub-80 round yesterday at the toesselated Hanover Country Club in Hanover, N.H., to finish a dismal fifth in the ECAC qualifying tournament, an event that the linksters won last year...
...dismal scientists were, for once, overly optimistic about the national scene, anticipating a 4 per cent rate of inflation over the long run. Harvard's costs are rising at a much more rapid rate. The committee is reconsidering how much of the endowment's income to spend yearly and how much to re-invest for future needs...
...tempted to ask whether ghetto blacks and hispanics--who live in a world of burnt-out buildings, dismal employment prospects, and a welfare system that breaks up families and degrades recipients--really owe much allegiance to the moral system espoused by white intellectuals like Decter who live on the West Side by the river. How can she argue the looters are not angry at, not frustrated by the society that keeps them in the ghetto--particularly when she's never talked to them...
...Sheet & Tube] plant leaves, the whole valley will die," says one Campbell Works employee. "It will kill our business," adds Jim Carlucci, owner of Frank's Party Shop in a Struthers shopping center. In Campbell and Struthers, dismal little taverns near the mill gates were filled with workers morosely drinking up one last time. Most were quiet, but in Shirley's Bar in Struthers, eight angry steelworkers yelled, "We want jobs, not jackets!" They had received coupons entitling them to free jackets for helping set production records on open-hearth furnaces a day before they got their notices...
They'll have a tough act to follow. Last year's team, coming off a dismal 2-4 dual meet record, demolished Princeton and Yale in a Big Three upset, then ran wild in the IC4As to an unexpected first place finish, and capped the season with a more than respectable (just being there was more than respectable) 23rd place finish in the NCAAs...