Word: dismalness
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Spring has finally arrived, even to dismal Cambridge, and with it, so have two major PC products...
...that the orgy of uplifters preaching the dangers of drunk driving in ad-council commercials, movies-of-the-week and after-school specials, and the introduction of the idea of "designated drivers" (by the Harvard School of Public Health in 1985), the effect of raising the drinking age seems dismal...
...more than a dozen years ago, basketball didn't amount to nearly so much beyond the community gym. The pros were dismal, near bankruptcy. March Madness had not been invented by the impresarios. David Morton of the Amateur Athletic Union thinks the 1979 game between Indiana State and Michigan State, featuring Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, "lit the flame under college basketball" that carried a new excitement through the pros and down into the high schools...
That return, while a significant improvement over the previous year's dismal 1.1 percent rate, still put the company well below the average return of 13.1 percent for universities nationwide, as reported by the National Association of College and University Business Officers...
...temporary. In order to make palatable a policy he had earlier denounced. Clinton has pledged to increase efforts to restore a democratic government to Haiti, and to quicken the processing of asylum applications. But so far, he has done neither effectively, and the policy of returning Haitians to a dismal and dangerous nation damages his credibility as a humanitarian foreign policymaker...