Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fabius remained the golden boy of the Socialist team. Although political analysts knew that Mauroy's days were numbered, most assumed that he would remain in place through the fall to act as a lightning rod for attacks on the tightfisted 1985 budget. But the left's dismal showing in the European elections forced Mitterrand to act. A fortnight ago, he withdrew his controversial legislation to bring the country's private schools under greater state control and announced that he would launch a complicated constitutional process to permit referendums on questions involving "civil liberties." As the President...
Curious lapse: once young Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) reluctantly leaves his dismal trailer park and his pert girlfriend (Catherine Mary Stewart) and arrives on Rylos, staging area for the paltry battle to come, he is either too polite or too dense to mention its uncanny resemblance to the mechanical landscapes scattered about the Star Wars galaxy. Of course he can't hear the score (marked-down John Williams) and is perhaps too caught up in the action to notice how much everyone and everything he meets resembles software, hardware and ideas people have all had just about enough...
...basketball agreement calls for Khashoggi to pay $6 million to cover the outstanding debts of the ten-year-old Jazz franchise, which moved from New Orleans to Salt Lake City in 1979, and $2 million to defray operating costs. After dismal performances in earlier years, the Jazz this past season had its best record ever (45-37), won the Midwest division, and made it to the Western division : semifinals before being defeated by Phoenix. That marked the club's first appearance in a postseason playoff. Last week Jazz officials foresaw no difficulty in obtaining approval for the sale from...
...initial chapters deal with Western attitudes towards childrearing and with Western gynecologists and their sometimes abhorrent maltreatment of women-which add up to pretty dismal picture for those with maternal (or paternal) instincts. Throughout the book. Greer cites numerous anthropological, sociological, and psychological studies: her claims, if somewhat outrageous, are almost always based on well-documented research. But in a section on the importance of fertility, Greer's biases begin to manifest themselves in her less-than-objective tone. Her well-supported argument occasionally loses ground in spurts of emotionalism and-over-statement...
...game brought to a satisfying end a year that saw the team's fortunes turn around after a dismal start. Although admittedly outclassed in its early-season contests at national powers Penn. Johns Hopkins and Syracuse, the Crimson was still disappointed to limp out to a 2-4 start...