Word: dismalness
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...rarely customers stray beyond plain-vanilla E-mail and online access into the premium programming that was supposed to be the network's drawing card. According to an internal memo distributed last spring, the pay area's most popular channel at the time, Daily Disney Blast, was attracting a dismal 6,000 hits a week...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, anxious to right himself after a bruising year, is turning his guns on a retired four-star general: BARRY MCCAFFREY, President Clinton's drug czar. "Dismal. Baloney," GINGRICH scoffed at McCaffrey's antidrug strategy. "I met with General McCaffrey two months ago and said, 'I want a World War II-style victory plan--a decisive, all-out, cataclysmic effort to break the back of the drug culture...
...community for the thousands of people-of all races, backgrounds and occupations-desperately in need of a bone marrow transplant. Posters could have said, "Look at the plight of this one man; there are many more like him who could use your support." Organizers could have highlighted the dismal fact that only 3,000,000 people-barely more than one percent of the U.S. population-are registered in the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). (By contrast, over two-and-a-half percent of Asian Americans, or 200,000 Asians, are registered in the NMDP.) Organizers could have actively encouraged every...
During the mid- to late-'80s, HMC's returns were mediocre to dismal. In 1991 and 1992, Harvard's endowment grew more slowly than the large majority of college and university funds...
This defeat comes on the heels of two dismal performances for the Crimson. The physical talent is clearly present, thus the mental toughness and focus of the players was quickly coming into question...