Word: dismalness
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...appropriations bills, even for defense, that it will have to pass a "continuing resolution" to fund major portions of the Government in the new fiscal year. Almost certainly, such a stopgap measure would provide for spending higher than Reagan wants. That, in turn, would set the stage for a dismal charade: first a presidential veto, threatening theoretically to put the Government out of business, then anguished negotiations, and finally a compromise maintaining spending at levels a bit higher than currently scheduled. What makes these prospects especially depressing is that there is strong bipartisan agreement on what should be done...
...there is more palpable consolation for farmers: the shrunken harvests (perhaps 4.5 billion bu. of corn, vs. 8.4 billion bu. in 1982) have helped reduce enormous surpluses, thus pushing some recent cash prices higher than they had been in nearly a decade-74% above last year's dismal levels. And last week a bit of rain did fall from Topeka to Terre Haute, raising the hope that the U.S. soybean harvest may be closer to normal than predicted...
They don't complain if I get there late." Charlie drove the bodies up the East River, which fairly boiled this summer day, then through The Bronx, past signs for truck parts and cigarettes. The landscape was unrelievedly dismal until Charlie crossed the bridge to City Island, off the flank of The Bronx in Long Island Sound. Here there were bright, scrubbed storefronts, fishermen in slickers, the air of New England, and a ferry with a happy crew. Lloyd Roberts, an engineer, remarked on Charlie's load, "These passengers are the best. They don't pay, they...
President Reagan's Ronnie-come-lately interest in the dismal state of American education is certainly heartwarming [June 20]. After all, Reagan once bragged on national television that he never tried to make grades higher than Cs. since Cs were the minimum necessary to be eligible to play sports...
Fusco was, from the start, considered a first rate defenseman, destined to etch his mark in College sports history. But the squad he started with as a freshman was so dismal it seemed he would never garner more than individual trophies...