Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merely a product of Christian Democratic weakness. The PCI now participates in five regional governments and in the municipal governments of all the major cities north of Rome. There it has been able to provide effective and honest public administration, in sharp contrast to the DC's dismal record. More importantly, the PCI stands for an "Italian road to socialism" sharply distinct from the Soviet model...
...Harvard golfers, buffeted by both the wind and the weak competition, finished a dismal third to Salem State and Southeastern Massachusetts University in a match yesterday at Salem Country Club. The squad managed to edge Gordon College by several strokes...
...reflected a minute. "I never study in Widener, always in my room; here it's too noisy. And the stacks are dismal, like being swallowed by a Leviathan. Except they're entertaining too. Like every now and then you run across ancient books made out of sheepskin, or with pages bolted together with metal things, or even the Playboy collection down on some sub-level...
...article does accurately present the dismal and unfortunate situation that confronted last year's ministry. Without a doubt, the Cardinal's abrupt dismissal of an entire campus ministry team was an alienating act which "undermined confidence in ecclesiastical administration." The author also accurately protrays the team itself; it did emphasize political and social activism to a greater extent than the present ministry. However, the incriminating tone of the remainder of the article has gravely disturbed us, the elected representatives of the Catholic student community...
...Accounting. Had the Lockheed scandal not surfaced, this dismal performance might have gone unnoticed. Traditionally the top managers of state-owned corporations have formed a sottogoverno (subgovernment) that runs their enterprises with so little supervision that they do not even bother to keep the public or the official government up to date on what they are doing. Earlier this month, for example, the giant Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (I.R.I.), which controls 15% of all Italian industry, got around to releasing its consolidated balance sheet-for 1974. If the manager of a state-owned enterprise blundered, the government would quietly come...