Word: dismalness
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...showed last week that he could put a coda to that sad history and make a fresh start at pacification, this time with butter instead of guns. His lifting of Washington's 30-year-old trade embargo against Hanoi amounted to the final farewell to arms in the long, dismal, tortured struggle that devoured much of the best resources of both countries...
Deducting interest already capitalized by Whitewater? That would have created a tax problem, says Lindsey, only if Whitewater had generated a capital gain, which it never did. (No argument there; the development was a dismal failure.) In that case, says Lindsey, the IRS would have insisted that the interest had been improperly capitalized and must be added to the taxable gain; no gain, no problem. Not so, replies tax expert Bruce Miller, chief managing partner in San Francisco for Kenneth Leventhal & Co., an accounting firm specializing in real estate: "You can't both deduct it and capitalize it, even...
...Crime control is complicated, expensive and frustrating. When people want action now, it doesn't help much to tell them the "root causes" are even more intractable problems like joblessness, family disintegration or drugs. But the solution they are most inclined to reach for, more prisons, has a dismal record when it comes to reducing crime. (See following story.) So Congress and the states grope for the mixture of punishment and incentive that will take the pressure off for a while...
...issue all the campaigns are banking on at the polls will be the dismal Massachusetts job market...
...approval number is all the more impressive in that it follows upon a month of stories criticizing his personal life as Arkansas Governor. Clinton's popularity looks better still after his dismal 37% approval rating of June, around the time his public image was being defined by his failed job-stimulus package, two failures to appoint an Attorney General, the fight over gays in the military, an ill-advised shakeup at the White House travel office and a haircut by Christophe. Clinton's popular rebound suggests that even if there were times last year when he made Americans wince...