Word: dismalness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certainly no accident that Pope John Paul II is head of the Catholic Church in these times. He has come along when the world needs him most. Having lived under Nazi and Communist regimes in his native Poland, he knows firsthand the dismal failure of totalitarian and atheistic ideologies...
...deutsche mark against the failing franc. To the French it was "the deutsche mark problem," and Mitterrand expected Bonn to correct it by simply raising the value of the West German currency. To the West Germans and others it was a "franc problem" caused by France's dismal economic performance. When the finance ministers of the ten European Community nations met in Brussels, the stage was set for a collision...
...string of candidates running against the dismal record of the incumbent Administration has led some to theorize that the Presidency and America's problems have in recent years become too complex for anyone to handle. Perhaps, but one contender for the throne, Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), has a different answer. "While the world changes around us," he argues, "we remain mired in irrelevant debate about the wrong issues. Because we have not responded to change, we find ourselves faced with false choices inflation versus recession, government control versus the free market: even technological progress versus jobs...
...will. This assumes sufficient economic contacts--hardly reality since the downfall of detente--create such leverage. But even granting its existence, certain factors indicate that the economic weapon may not be so lethal. The USSR, despite its staggering economy, does possess an impressive stock of raw materials. Ant the dismal failure of the U.S. grain embargo demonstrates the need for cooperation among the Western allies if economic corrections are to have only success. Future prospects for such cohesion are not great...
...director of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Torres adds that his organization no longer bothers to lobby the White House on judicial choices. His anguish is shared by District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Gladys Kessler, head of the National Association of Women Judges. "The record is dismal," says Kessler. "We have some grave concerns about whether this Administration is really looking for women candidates." She also charges that potential female judges are being scrutinized more closely than males on their opposition to abortion...