Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard (3-2 overall, 1-1 Ivy) shot a dismal 29 percent from the field for the game, making only 18 of 63 attempts...
Despite these dismal figures, Clifton Wharton Jr., chancellor of the / sprawling State University of New York (SUNY), remained skeptical when his faculty complained that good nonwhite teachers were difficult to find. Then he discovered that of some 1,000 Ph.D.s earned by blacks, more than 600 were in education but only 29 were in the physical sciences, six in math and one in computer science. Given such sparse credentials, faculty jobs for blacks have been extremely hard to come by. At Stanford, for example, a mere 45 of the university's 1,294 faculty members are black or Hispanic. Among...
...Constitutionality, Question 3 already has a dismal track record. Although slightly revised, the bill in Question 3 is substantially the same as its earlier incarnations in Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Los Angeles County, and Suffolk County, N.Y.--where it was either rejected or struck down. In the case of Indianapolis, the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that Question 3's text is unconstitutional...
...league players who actually applied to join the minor leaguers in a mandatory testing program now four months along. Whether there are enough to spur the union now is the question. Because by week's end Ueberroth's deadline for responses expired, and he was beaten back into the dismal channels of collective bargaining. Though not cleaving to every comma in the limited testing agreement already in place, Fehr seems unlikely to sway very far from the standard principles of a free society, where ballplayers are as receptive as most workers to mass indictments and virtue detectors...
...addition to some dismal visuals, Kerouac deals with the controversial side of Jack Kerouac--the leader by default of the generation of writers and artists called the Beatniks--no better than have have recent print biographies...