Word: dismalness
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Once one gets into the mode of identifying BAD--defined as the huge gap between appearance and dismal reality--it comes easily. Some national BAD ideas; the "Buy American" (i.e. "Don't Buy Japanese") craze, thinking that tax cuts enacted over a year from now will somehow alleviate the present recession, the assumption that we care whom Bill Clinton slept with and how many times and the idea that the public's "right to know" means that rape victims should be forced to testify live in front of 250 million people...
...Crimson men finished a dismal eighth at the Heptagonal Indoor Track and Field Championships, with only 29 points, while the women left Hanover, N.H. with 64 points, giving them a respectable fourth-place...
...opulent salaries and perks enjoyed by many U.S. corporate executives have touched a raw nerve in a time of massive layoffs and dismal profits. Irate unions and shareholders have demanded that business chiefs be held more accountable for the fat compensation packages they get. Congress has threatened to pass legislation to curb excess corporate pay if regulators fail to take on the task. Sensing the growing outrage, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Richard Breeden unveiled a set of reforms last week that will make corporate boards think twice before handing out multimillion-dollar paychecks to top executives...
These days, zoos hard pressed for space have adopted strict breeding practices to prevent unwanted offspring ending up in dismal wayside attractions or being used as quarry at private big-game ranches...
Everywhere you look around the Nordic Empress, people like Ted LaTour are defying the dismal economic news back home. Across the teak sun deck, Nancy and Bruce Brentlinger of Terre Haute, Ind., are sipping their own Bahama Mamas and playing cards. Down on Deck 4, Tim and Ann Swan of San Antonio are dressing for the '50s rock-'n'-roll night. On Deck 5, Liz Scheetz from Chapel Hill, N.C., is slamming quarters into a Dynamite Jackpot slot machine, while around the corner in the Carousel Pub Mary Ann Brower of Pleasantville, N.J., is celebrating with a bottle of Freixenet...