Word: dismalness
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Failure rescued Tucker from that dismal fate. He has passed into popular history as a more interesting figure, at once heroic and cautionary: the little guy who dared to buck the big guys and got squished in the process. It is easy to see why he appealed to Coppola, who has been trying to put Tucker's story on the screen for something like a decade. It is not just simply that as a child Coppola was knocked out by a glimpse of the Tucker Torpedo at an auto show in the late '40s. It is rather that...
...trade balance is involved in the complex equation that deals with the drying of America. After dismal years of crop surpluses, falling prices and sagging overseas markets, the federal program to sell foodstocks abroad and take millions of acres out of production was at last paying off. Wheat surpluses had dwindled by 35% in the past two years, and exports were up 75%. So far, Clayton Yeutter, the U.S. trade representative, is resisting the cries to stop selling grain overseas and preserve it for American markets. But if grain sales abroad must be halted, the frustrated overseas customers...
...basics message that it hoped would improve achievement in math and other subjects. Last week the results of such efforts were totted up in a newly released study titled The Mathematics Report Card -- Are We Measuring Up? Its assessment of the performance of U.S. high school students in 1986: "Dismal...
Except for two individual placewinners, Harvard had a dismal performance. The Crimson totaled 11 points on the day to finish 15th out of 29 teams...
...recent report on Minority Faculty Recruitment by the Harvard Minority Students Alliance demonstrated the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' dismal lack of any effort to recruit more minority faculty. The departments of Arts, Chemistry, and Biology--only 16 History, and Biology made 11 job searches and received 721 applications in 1986-87. Only four of these applications were from minorities, indicating that these departments make almost no effort to recruit minority applications, let alone to hire minorities...