Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bryant returned to his alma mater, which had floundered through four dismal seasons. Before the Auburn game that year, he told the Touchdown Club in Birmingham: "Gentlemen, I wouldn't bet anything but Coca-Cola on tomorrow's game. Next year you can bet a fifth of whisky. And the year after that you can mortgage the damn house." Bryant was right. A bettor would have lost a Coke that first year (Auburn won, 14-8), but the mortgages were safe: Alabama took the next four games in the series without allowing a point...
...squad is by no means a formidable opponent, but could give the Crimson some trouble all the same. Five starters will return from last year's dismal 2-10-1 squad, which can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. Calling his squad "mediocre in most areas, an average team," Alessi described his outlook as "guardedly optimistic...
...book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient (M. Evans; $9.95), Archer writes that while a high S.I. helped make Bell a great doctor, today's medical schools, psychiatric institutes and other professional training centers ignore it when picking their students. Says he: "Verbal intelligence has a dismal record for predicting success [in a career]. To rely on it alone is a form of intellectual habit. We are operating a fraudulent system of professional credentialing...
Jimmy Carter has been under heavy pressure to propose an economic program because the dismal state of business appears to be one of his Administration's greatest weaknesses as the presidential campaign opens. But Carter received a bit of unexpected, though illusory, economic news last week: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices did not increase in July. That was the first month that the cost of living had not risen in more than 13 years. But experts quickly admitted that this was a statistical fluke. The cost of food, automobiles and medical care continued to soar...
...addition to these problems, Brazil has a relatively new and even more pressing problem-piles and piles of debt. Keeping company with such indigent nations as Zaïre, Peru and Bangladesh, Brazil has earned the dismal distinction of being the developing country that has plunged most deeply into deficit. At the moment, it owes the astonishing total of more than $50 billion, mainly to international banks...