Word: dismalness
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...some Republican campaign veterans are calling Dole's "triangulation" strategy. A cbs News survey early last week showed Dole's job-approval rating had risen to 63%, up 11 points from December, while Clinton's was flat at 50% and Gingrich's was up 4 points but still a dismal 33%. It was, of all people, Sonny Bono who had the best explanation of the Speaker's folly. "I always respected his ability to be an artful dodger," said the freshman lawmaker. "He has an instinctive ability to make you believe things are going one way when they're going...
...announcement, two days after the New Year's Eve horn tooting had died away, got 1996 off to a dismal start on the employment front. By now, of course, it is hardly news that "at most major companies, downsizing is standard operating procedure, year in and year out," in the words of John Challenger, executive vice president of the Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas...
...relatively peaceable kingdom of, say, 1965. (Murder victims per 100,000 then: 5.1. In 1994: 9.) And there are widespread predictions that another tidal wave will break as soon as the milk-toothed children of the '90s crowd into their saw-toothed teens. Whoever called economics the dismal science must not have heard about criminology...
...nationalist voice, said he would run in June and that he hoped to do so in cooperation with the Communists. Party leaders seemed irritated by the announcement but said they would talk it over with the general, who was elected to the Duma last month despite his party's dismal showing. If Lebed and the Communists combined forces, the presidency would be well within their grasp...
...Rose Bowl (against USC) ranked number three in the nation. "Northwestern is one of the best sports stories of the year," says Wulf. "They have shown that a school can have a winning football team and not sacrifice good academics. And they're comeback from so many dismal seasons has been a lot of fun to watch...