Word: dismalness
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...lose their final series against Oakland, the A's would have a better chance of winning both halves of the season. And if they did, the second playoff spot might go to Chicago, since it was 31-22 before the strike, while Kansas City started off with a dismal 20-30 showing. White Sox Manager Tony LaRussa and his starting players admitted that they were not above chicanery if it meant derailing the Royals. Said offseason Attorney LaRussa: "If it got to that peculiar circumstance where if you won a ball game, you lost a spot in the playoffs...
...Socialist government of François Mitterrand: "The neutron bomb must not obscure the reality of the threats posed by the [Soviet] Euromissiles." In West Germany, Franz Josef Strauss, who was the conservative Christian Democratic opponent to Schmidt in last year's election, said that the "dismal situation of defense budgets" in NATO countries had left Reagan with no real alternative...
...Crimson won its first four games, ncluding a 15-10 thriller at Army. But Buckley panged his knee and the team stumbled at mid-season, eventually finishing with a 7-3 mark, a third-place tie in the Ivies. Despite the fine record, the season ended on a dismal note, a 14-0 humiliation at the hands of Yale...
...middle class has moved away from the ETA, and Basques in general have wearied of the struggle, the terrorists have come to draw most of their support-and recruits-from the dismal industrial suburbs that dot the narrow Basque mountain valleys some 20 to 25 miles inland. One such is Renteria (pop. 18,000), which adjoins the old Spanish summer royal residence of San Sebastian. A river running through town has the sickly sweet stench of dumped industrial wastes. A pall of chemical smoke from paper, plastics and cement factories hangs over the area on all but the windiest days...
Plagued by crumbling equipment, dismal service and deepening deficits, several cities boosted fares this month just to keep their systems sputtering along. As a further sign that there may be no light at the end of the mass-transit tunnel, the Administration promises to phase out by 1985 federal operating subsidies for bus and rail systems, now running at $1.1 billion a year and making up 13% of total costs...