Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DEVELOPMNET ECONOMICS is a faddish field. While other practitioners of the dismal science study the herd mentality, development economists practice it. But despite many voices, consensus is hard to come by. The field's single universally accepted truth may well be the assertion that despite 35 years of attention, the problems of the Third World seem as intractable as ever. But in this mercurial field. P. T. Bauer has remained an academic constant...
...yesterday's loss to Main, played in dismal 40-degree weather, the Crimson was not able to produce any substantial offense. Besides Boyer's leadoff single, the batwomen came up with only two other hits. Maine recorded six hits and took advantage of six Harvard errors to triumph, 5-0. It was the second time this season the Crimson had been shut out, both times by scores...
...them without their consent." But with the ascendance of Andrew Jackson the federal government abandoned all pretense of concern for Indian rights. In place of conciliation Jackson and his successors pursued a policy of removal and relocation, forcibly transfering eastern tribes to territories in the west. There followed a dismal procession of measures designed to wipe out tribal sovereignty and assimilate Indians into the white-American mainstream. In mid-century Congress established federal boarding schools for Indian children, where they were forbidden to speak their parents' language on pain of corporal punishment; in 1871 it abolished the practice of making...
Most Americans would agree that Government management of the economy affects them directly and powerfully. They might even concede that an understanding of what Historian Thomas Carlyle called "the dismal science" of economics is more important than ever before. But, economics is a forbidding subject, burdened by statistics and often by predictions and conclusions that emphasize the "dismal" and minimize the "science." Each week TIME'S Business section strives to make these sometimes murky matters pertinent, interesting and understandable. It achieves this by stressing in its stories the role of the people who make and administer major economic decisions...
...breathtaking landing, amid Florida's marshes and palmettos rather than the baked sands of California's Mojave Desert, was a stunning finale to a flight that was, at best, bittersweet: a dazzling display of the space shuttle's tremendous potential and yet a dismal reminder of the continuing frailty of technology in challenging the cosmos. The troubles ranged from the disastrous loss of two highly sophisticated communications satellites, valued in excess of $150 million, to a rash of lesser mishaps: a clogged toilet, the mysterious blowup of a ballyhooed navigational experiment, and a sudden case...