Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...construction trade, one of America's most important industries, the economic signals are highly conflicting. Despite a modest improvement in single-family home sales in May, the housing market remains in a state of shock. At the present low rate of new residential construction, 1980 could gain the dismal distinction of being the worst year since 1945, when the U.S. built fewer than 1 million new homes and apartments. This performance is especially appalling because 35 years ago the U.S. population was only 140 million, in contrast to 220 million today...
...first half of Smile Please is an exquisite memoir of young Jean's school days in Dominica, the West Indies, with its brilliant forests and its harsh contrasts in black and white. The second section details Rhys' life in England. She arrived at that other, far more dismal island when she was 16 and attended school for a year, until her father's death forced her to quit. For the next two years she toured, incongruously, as a chorus girl in musical comedies. A decade later she married and moved to Paris. There, except...
Egged on by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and eager to protect his political fortunes, Carter last winter sounded a clarion call for a return to draft registration. The allvolunteer forces are a dismal failure and registration is a military necessity, Carter told the American people in his State of the Union address. Now, although Carter's original proposal to register men and women between the ages of 18 and 26 is no more than a shadow of its former self, the president may be on the verge of a major victory...
...other issues such as the U.S. economic blockade and the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. The relatively mild language led Washington to believe that although Castro is not in any real trouble, he may have begun to realize that the exodus is making his tattered regime look like a dismal failure throughout Latin America. Says a senior Administration official: "The signals have gone from appearing berserk to showing some restraint. The question now is: Will the real Fidel Castro stand...
...another bad week for Iran's floundering President Abolhassan Banisadr. Not only did his candidates make a dismal showing in the second round of parliamentary elections; he also lost a battle in his power struggle with the clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party. As the President and the mullahs jockeyed for control of Iran's wayward revolution, the faction-ridden and economically strapped regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini slipped ever closer to chaos...