Word: dismalness
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Such gamesmanship has made this budget summit a dismal failure. The two sides should have been discussing real cuts and constructive taxes, such as higher gasoline taxes or a broader levy on energy in all forms, or both. But though an energy tax would raise billions quickly, encourage conservation and decrease the nation's dependence on foreign oil, a huge -- perhaps insurmountable -- obstacle stands in its way: it would take guts to impose...
...deflected forever, and now he faces a series of divisive concerns, including a new civil rights bill, tax increases and growing fear of recession. The selection of David Souter, while tactically adroit, underscored Bush's need to move cautiously across a domestic playing field that suddenly looks less dismal to Democrats eyeing 1992. The shift results mainly from the government's failure to contain the mounting deficit (estimated at $169 billion for fiscal 1991), which forced Bush to flee never-never land on the tax issue. That, along with the soaring costs of the S&L scandal and other problems...
...that the "real" Harvard is such a dismal place. If I had to do it all over again, I'd still come here--without a second thought...
...late great Eddie Murphy, wild child in the promised land of superstardom. Now missing and presumed dead, the bold young adventurer was last seen in the 1984 megahit Beverly Hills Cop. Though a figure billed as "Eddie Murphy" has been spotted flitting through the underbrush of a variety of dismal movies since then, it seems likely that he is being played by a stunt double. Or possibly a stunted double...
Banished for nearly a decade, the scourge of stagflation, with its fast- rising prices and dismal economic growth, is threatening the U.S. again. Inflation fighters, chief among them Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, had hoped that the current combination of relatively high interest rates and sluggish growth would dampen price increases. But the Labor Department said last week that consumer prices rose 0.5% in March, bringing the annual inflation rate in the first quarter to 8.5%, the fastest pace in nearly eight years. "What's so scary about the number is that it's going to take more pain...