Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Declining productivity. High interest rates. Slipping stock markets. TIME'S Economy & Business section has dealt with these dismal themes all too often in recent months, as the American economy has slid deeper into recession. So it was with relief that Business staff members turned to a more cheerful phenomenon: the surprising surge in innovative businesses in America today, and the new generation of capitalists who are risking, and often winning, huge sums with their venturesome companies. "It is the other, upbeat side of the economy," says Business Senior Editor George M. Taber. Adds Staff Writer Alexander Taylor, who wrote...
Dooley feels the Ivy tournament adds a lot to his team's season, "It's a season withing a season," he said. "A team could have a dismal record, but still win the Ivy championship. It's one more opportunity for the team to feel success--the same sort of feeling as the Beanpot. I don't think what you gain [by eliminating the tournament] will be better than what you lose...
...dismal showing of lieutenant governor Thomas P. O'Neill ill in his attempt to shed the first half of his title, could fatally cripple his candidacy. Even veteran observers were shocked by the magnitude of the walloping administered to O'Neill by former governor Michael s. Dukakis and Gov. Edward J. king. Though acknowledging before the caucuses that Dukakis would probably pull in a large majority, O'Neill's camp hoped for a respectable share, perhaps even to best king, who all along had belittle the caucuses and had never officially organized for then. But, by all accounts save...
...HAVEN, Conn.--Things are undeniably dismal for the Harvard women's basketball team...
...upshot of all these changes, even Gorsuch admits, is dismal morale among a once elite corps of highly trained scientists and lawyers. Dissidents within the EPA leak virtually every budget draft and controversial memo to the press and to a growing number of Gorsuch's critics in Congress, including some Republicans. The leaks have made Gorsuch feel even more embattled. She has taken the offensive against the EPA's much praised first decade, claiming a tradition of "mismanagement and no management." Some points are valid. When she took office there was a backlog of more than...