Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falklands. Conditions guarantee an ugly, unpleasant engagement. The Falklands, cold, damp, desolate clumps of rock set in a storm-tossed ocean, are a dismal place for military operations. By last weekend the Argentine forces, composed in part of raw recruits conscripted only months be fore, were dug in on the mossy, treeless, windy wasteland. They were waiting for British troops, who, though surely more experienced and better trained, had al ready endured what must have seemed like an eternity of confinement and sea sickness on the violent South Atlantic. It appeared, as it has been from the first, a confrontation...
...power in the Kremlin could be clarified at month's end when the Soviet leadership may convene for a Central Committee meeting devoted to the problems of the Soviet economy. According to official Soviet figures, 1982 got off to an inauspiciously slow start. The first quarter showed a dismal growth rate of 2.1%, well below the 4.7% Brezhnev hopes to achieve over the full year...
With interest rates high and sales projections dismal throughout virtually all of American industry, few businessmen seem eager to start hastily rebuilding their stocks to former levels. Instead, more and more firms are studying ways to hold down costs and operate with leaner inventories...
This is not to say that Kleinfelder should not have been released. The final decision Reardon made was a proper one. Over the past two seasons, Kleinfelder has compiled a meager 12-39 record and her most recent campaign saw the squad's mark plummet to a dismal 4-21. (But, keep in mind, at Harvard it takes more than just a losing record to dismiss a coach...
...friends from Cincinatti stiffly rose from their chairs. The stress of going from the euphoric '70s back to 1982, when the Reds were struggling at the bottom of the NL West with a dismal 3-10 mark, was simply too much. They muttered something about a Music I paper that was due in three weeks and headed back to their room to talk about hiking in the wilds surrounding Toledo...