Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle class has moved away from the ETA, and Basques in general have wearied of the struggle, the terrorists have come to draw most of their support-and recruits-from the dismal industrial suburbs that dot the narrow Basque mountain valleys some 20 to 25 miles inland. One such is Renteria (pop. 18,000), which adjoins the old Spanish summer royal residence of San Sebastian. A river running through town has the sickly sweet stench of dumped industrial wastes. A pall of chemical smoke from paper, plastics and cement factories hangs over the area on all but the windiest days...
Plagued by crumbling equipment, dismal service and deepening deficits, several cities boosted fares this month just to keep their systems sputtering along. As a further sign that there may be no light at the end of the mass-transit tunnel, the Administration promises to phase out by 1985 federal operating subsidies for bus and rail systems, now running at $1.1 billion a year and making up 13% of total costs...
...example, Zbigniew Brzezinski was in Europe last week burnishing the dismal foreign policy record of Jimmy Carter, for whom Brzezinski was National Security Adviser, and suggesting that Reagan's venture into international management so far was amateurish. The Reaganites, complained former Ambassador to Moscow Malcolm Toon not long ago, "have no foreign policy at all." His was the bluntest of many voices on that issue...
Most significantly, the Communists won only 16.2%?just a slight improvement over Marchais's dismal 15.34% in the April 26 presidential voting. Thus Mitterrand, while espousing the unity of the left, finally succeeded where his center-right predecessors had failed, reducing the Communists to a marginal role in French society. On the morning after, Marchais found himself in no position to impose any demands on the Socialist President...
Others are not as willing to believe that the school is doing what it can. Elsa Porter, a member of the school's visiting committee, calls the school's record "dismal," and Lori A. Forman, a member of the K-School Student Association, citing the school's refusal to hire a minority recruiter, argues that "the budget has constantly dictated policy rather than what was ethically or socially right...