Word: dismalness
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Ireland's economy is stagnating. Its unemployment rate in the late 1980s was a dismal 17 percent. Many of Ireland's best and brightest have left their homeland with their superb education for 'the West,' only to be denied a home in the United States due to immigration quotas. These young people are forced to resort to living as illegal aliens, taking jobs in nursing, child care, and forms of menial labor...
Traditionally a national force in Division I lacrosse, Cornell has the winningest record in Ivy League lacrosse history. Last year, the Big Red had an unusually dismal season, turning a 7-6 overall, 2-4 Ivy record. And coming into Ohiri Field, the nationally-ranked Cornell team was burned by a surging, though unranked, Crimson squad...
...fresh, Desert Storm excuse is handy? Trans World Airlines, plagued by high debt and slow traffic since it was purchased in 1986 by Carl Icahn, cited the Persian Gulf in announcing that it would not be making $75.5 million in scheduled payments to bondholders in February. As for the dismal performance of retailers over Christmas, who would imagine that thigh-high hemlines or sticker shock over $100 cotton sweaters and $200 tennis shoes rather than combat jitters could have held consumers back...
...remarkably low, given the length and intensity of the bombing. But there is no way to entirely avoid the killing of civilians, and Saddam seems to be trying to provoke more by putting military installations among them -- placing antiaircraft guns on top of apartment houses, for example. Thus a dismal equation: more bombing equals more civilian deaths equals an ever greater chance for Saddam to portray the war as an assault by Western colonialists and Zionists against the entire Arab world...
...military has set up a system of media pools to cover the initial stages of the operation, controlling reporters' movements and their access to sources. The system works brilliantly from the Pentagon's point of view, but it has subverted the coverage of the war and given it a dismal, canned quality...