Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the B-school is well-endowed in comparison to other schools, the oversupply of graduates with MBA-degrees and a dismal economic climate could cause declining enrollment and force the school to make some cutbacks, McArthur added...
...this embarrassing and potentially bank-breaking situation. The book is quite simply the best exposition of the subject available to the general reader. This is not surprising since Goodman, a former magazine journalist, financial editor and investment manager, writes about economics as a lively art, not as a dismal science. Here he is pondering the Big Bang theory of real estate: "Why should bricks and mortar, wood and paint, increase in price even faster than inflation? It is because not only is the currency diminishing in its worth relative to fixed objects, but belief in the currency is diminishing even...
...Deer Hunter turned in a healthy profit and won the New York Film Critics Award and the Oscar as Best Picture of the Year. But the Quandary aside, Fort Apache, despite its emotional jerry-rigging, stands as a silly sham and a dismal artistic failure...
Tomorrow the aquawomen seek to avenge last year's rankling loss when they take on the Elis at Blodgett Pool at 3:30 p.m. in the last dual meet of the year. Despite last weekend's dismal dunking at the claws of the powerful Princeton Tigers, the aquawomen are aiming to finish their regular season with a 6-3 record before leaving for next weekend's Ivy League Swimming Championships...
However, it was not those exceptions but the dismal state of of the American economy that Ronald Reagan into the in November. Perhaps the candidate's most effective campaign tactic was during the debate with President Carter when he looked at the television camera and asked the American people: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The answer was mostly no. Last year alone, the average real disposable income per capita fell an estimated...