Search Details

Word: dismally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Smith's goal capped off a complete North Country sweep of the Crimson this year, extending Harvard's ECAC record to a dismal 1-6-1 since the start of the New Year...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 867-5309: Wacky Weekend | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...fact, it was mostly luck that propelled Clarkson, the perennial ECAC champion looking to atone for its uncharacteristically dismal league start, to victory...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 867-5309: Wacky Weekend | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...region--El Nino, the effects of 1998's hurricanes Georges and Mitch, the floods of coastal Venezuela--but a collapse on Wall Street could have a no less devastating effect. Moises Naim, editor of the journal Foreign Policy, based in Washington, noted that 1999 set a series of dismal records for Latin America: the highest unemployment rates ever recorded, the highest fiscal deficits in a decade, a near unprecedented collapse of foreign investment and trade. By necessity, said Naim ruefully, "Latin Americans are now the best in the world at managing crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sky's The Limit | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...warned, the government debt could reach 151% of GNP. Bank loans amount to 145% of GNP. Courtis warned against taking too much solace from last year's anemic 1% Japanese growth rate, which was caused by massive spending and worsened an already dismal fiscal picture. "The Japan of today makes the Italy of yesterday look like a paragon of fiscal rectitude," said Courtis. "The country has to engage in a reform agenda of a magnitude we've rarely seen in a modern country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sky's The Limit | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

Fans who were disappointed to see Leonardo DiCaprio's dismal end in Titanic shouldn't have worried. Three relatively low-key years after the blockbuster in which he succumbed to an icy demise, Leo washed up on an idyllic stretch of sand as one of the world's highest-paid, most well known actors.In his latest rendezvous in the water, entitled The Beach, based on a book of the same name by author Alex Garland, Leo reinvents himself as Richard, a dissatisfied, disillusioned Gen-Xer, traversing the world in search of a "genuine" experience. Genuine in this case excludes anything...

Author: By Jennifer Liao, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Thai-tanic: Leo Hits The Beach | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

Previous | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | Next