Word: dismalness
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...cause. "Until two years ago, couples in which the man was infertile were told to find a sperm donor," says Dr. Michael McClure, chief of the reproductive-sciences branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "Or they were essentially advised about adoption. Things were that dismal. But now a significant portion of male infertility may be treatable...
...second--that would be bad enough. To third, a dismal bronze behind Yale and Princeton...
...project's research director, said Harvard's relatively larger classes contributed to its nose dive, according to the Globe. Indeed, on the list of statistics, 9 percent of Yale's classes had 50 or more students in them; Princeton's comparable figure was 13 percent and Harvard's a dismal...
...thirds of the budget. The remaining third would have to be slashed all the more savagely. And Dole is very vague about where those cuts might fall--intentionally, since he wants headlines to focus on tax savings rather than spending cuts. It is not unreasonable, however, to foresee a dismal scenario: spending cuts come nowhere near matching tax reductions; the deficit mushrooms; a panicked bond market raises interest rates; the higher rates cause economic growth to slow, reducing tax collections even more...
Until last week's disaster, TWA could point proudly--as CEO Jeffery Erickson did publicly--to an admirable safety record. Its financial history, on the other hand, has been absolutely dismal. TWA has flown in and out of bankruptcy twice this decade, losing more than $2 billion in the process. It has managed to survive largely on the willingness of its workers, who own 30% of the company, to grant whopping concessions to keep it from following fellow pioneers Pan Am and Eastern into aviation history...