Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longest bull market since the 1920s. Stock-market analysts were quick to point out that the early-week drop was equivalent to only 4.2% of the Dow's value, in contrast to the record loss of nearly 13% on Oct. 28, 1929. Moreover, last Monday was the fifth notably dismal day of the year, even as the Dow has climbed about 350 points since Jan. 1. The others: Jan. 8, a 39-point loss; March 21, 36 points; April 30, 42 points; June 9, 46 points. Says Hildegard Zagorski, a market analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities: "The market has handed...
Bias' death turned the spotlight on the status of athletes at the University of Maryland. Bias had compiled a dismal academic record at the school, particularly in the past year, and was still 21 credits short of graduating, instead of nine, as he recently claimed. The university and Basketball Coach "Lefty" Driesell quickly found themselves the targets of charges that athletes, particularly black athletes, are routinely exploited at big-time sports schools. Wendy Whittemore, academic counselor to the basketball team, took the occasion to resign, saying that she thought education was not a top priority for Coach Driesell. Marshall claimed...
Charlie Whittingham, 73, Shoe's notion of "the best trainer in the country," was blessed to have forgotten his binoculars in the excitement of the morning. "I didn't know where Shoe was," he admitted. After two dismal Mays out of two, in 1958 and '60 (one of those Whittingham horses is now cutting herds in a rodeo), Charlie swore never to return to Louisville without a contender. "I hoped for the big horse, I waited for him." So the trainer was 26 years between Derby starts, and the rider 21 between Derby victories. "I didn't panic," said Shoemaker...
Despite last year's dismal showing, when the laxmen ended up 3-11, the outlook for this spring's lacrosse team is bright. Harvard is 4-1 (2-0 Ivy League) and ranked 13th in the latest national poll...
ENFORCING CIVIL RIGHTS laws has not been a priority for the Reagan Administration. Since kicking off its campaign by defending the right of Bob Jones University to resist federal affirmative action policies, the Reagan Justice Department has chalked up a dismal record of avoiding prosecutions under federal civil rights laws...