Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...injury-plagued Crimson posted a dismal 3-15 mark last year under the leadership of undergraduate coach Seth Farber '86, so the spikers are hoping that their 1986 record will be as new as everything else about the team...
...much the same way, Chicago's Gray urges tolerance toward Harvard, even of the university's dismal record on hiring and promoting female faculty, an imperfection she sees as generic to U.S. universities. With so many fine schools in America, Gray says, there is no way that even Harvard can in everything "be dominant or that in every area it will maintain the same degree of excellence." In fact, she has little patience with the question of who may be No. 1. "The competition is tougher than it was, say, 50 years ago. It doesn't mean Harvard...
There is a feeling in Washington that we are gathering at the side of the track to watch a gigantic economic train wreck one of these days, and nobody seems inclined to do much but ask his brother along for the spectacle. The dismal economic reports this week -- slow growth, housing starts down, deficits unabated -- heightened the foreboding even while the politicians celebrated tax reform and Reagan rode horses at his ranch...
...announcing last week's dismal performance figures, TBS accountants tried hard to get out all the bad news at once. Their financial statement included $26 million in loss provisions for the ill-starred Goodwill Games, which had ended less than four weeks earlier. Turner noted that while his losses are "on their face, quite large," TBS business operations continued to show "satisfactory growth." The seafaring entrepreneur clearly intends to hang onto his dogged spirit of optimism as he tries to beat past the threatening reefs...
...dismal Washington summer din is mostly about Justice William Rehnquist's old memos and about sanctions against South Africa. None of this even starts to be as important as the question of what we are going to do in space...