Word: dismalness
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...David R. Gammons '92 said his day would be dismal as well--but he didn't have an excuse...
...here in New Hampshire, one of the most conservative states in the union, Harkin has had a more difficult time. The man who calls himself "the only real Democrat in the race" for the presidency is shown by the polls to have a dismal rate of support among party voters--about 10 percent...
...Crimson's triumphant performance raised its record to 2-14 (1-3 Ivy). Hartford fell to a dismal...
...survey's clients, they showed just another in a long series of declines in consumer spirit: a drop from 68.2 in December to 67.1 in early January. If that wasn't depressing enough, the government released a batch of year-end statistics last week confirming the economy's continuing dismal shape. Retail sales, which account for one-third of all U.S. economic activity, fell 0.4% in December. For all of 1991, they inched up a meager 0.7%, the smallest gain in three decades. The cutback in spending led to plant closures. Industrial output fell 0.2% last month, and shrank...
...gloomy assessment. People are delighted that for the first time since 1980, and after the loss of 75,000 lives, the government and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) are at war no more. But they also realize that the long-term outlook for the country is dismal. The peace treaty signed last week in Mexico City, which goes into effect Feb. 1, is no guarantee that El Salvador's 5.4 million people can prevail in the other battle that they have been steadily losing -- the one against poverty and hopelessness...