Word: dismalness
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...eminently understandable, though in Bjorn Borg's case, especially regrettable. The shy Swede, born just outside Stockholm, raised just outside the baseline, is a special case. First of all, his departure grants Czechoslovak Ivan Lendl and Americans John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors complete custody of the game, a dismal situation...
...bright spots in this otherwise dismal production is ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith's snappy, techno-country-Western soundtrack. But Nesmith also co-wrote the juvenile screenplay, and it seems a clear Indication as in where his talents...
That leaves policymakers with few clear guidelines to follow. Last month, for example, White House Adviser Edwin Harper briefed Reagan for an hour on the dismal state of economic thinking. Harper's conclusion: "The U.S. economy is too complex and depends upon too many human decisions to be explained by any single theory...
...special lameduck session of the 97th Congress seemed to be at once bogged down by cantankerous obstructionism and buffeted by legislative grandstanding. Efforts to pass overdue appropriations bills for the fiscal year that began last October (the ostensible reason for the special session) were a dismal failure. The attempt to pave the road to prosperity with a nickel-a-gallon gasoline tax was stalled by a renegade filibuster. Ronald Reagan and his congressional critics were still at swords' points over the MX missile, and no one dared even mention Social Security, a beast that some had foolishly dreamed...
Trying to downplay the White House's responsibility for such a dismal prospect, Feldstein and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan have argued repeatedly in recent weeks that the U.S. is plagued by a high rate of "structural unemployment," which cannot be cured by the Government's traditional pump-priming tactics of boosting spending or expanding the money supply. The term structural unemployment is a fuzzy concept that has been bandied about by economists for years, but has no clear-cut definition. Generally speaking, it refers to people out of work not as a result of a recession, but because...