Word: dismalness
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...dismal....No, I won't say dismal but it was a very frustrating year...
...spotlight of public discourse and posturing congressional debate. China is simply too important to become a political football in Washington. Clinton conceded as much when he ended linkage between trade and human rights by renewing China's most-favored-nation status a year ago despite its dismal human-rights record. By then it was evident that for all its brutality, the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown had not been a political watershed, that economic reform was continuing and that ideology was in general retreat-even if the regime remained rigidly authoritarian. The record of Clinton's "comprehensive engagement" policy since has been...
First in San Francisco and later as chief of surgery at the University of Minnesota, Najarian focused on kidney transplants, struggling to improve the dismal success rate. Early on, only a third of patients survived more than three years. They were dying, Najarian knew, mainly because of tissue rejection. Their immune systems targeted transplanted organs as foreign and marshaled white blood cells to destroy the invaders. But Najarian saw a solution. With a colleague, he worked out a method for purifying a new drug called antilymphocyte globulin, or ALG, a potent cocktail of antibodies capable of countering the lethal reaction...
Undeterred by wet, dismal weather, more than 100 admirers flocked to a book signing by Allen Ginsberg at Wordsworth Book Store yesterday evening...
Millennialism produces intriguing impulses in a culture. Around the year 1000, European manuscript artists and poets limned their visions of the Apocalypse. Today's equally important purveyors of world culture--American television producers--are approaching the next millennium with less dismal thoughts. They are offering an onslaught of science-fiction series replete with brilliant techno-fetishists, emoting robots and impassioned parapsychologists...