Word: dismalness
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...twice and analyzes the instructor's performance, offering suggestions for improving his teaching. At the conclusion of each term, students complete an elaborate questionnaire assessing their section and the course as a whole. As a result, sections synchronize with lectures, work assignments are standardized throughout the course, and the dismal science becomes more palatable for another thousand undergraduates...
...Resolution. But Carter convinced them that the mission was an act of mercy, not of war. What was more, the Senators and Congressmen who had doubted the wisdom of the plan were persuaded that the rescue effort had been a carefully thought through and quite practical operation, despite its dismal outcome. "The plan appeared militarily feasible," said Republican Senator John Tower later. Agreed Democratic Congressman Clement Zablocki, who had earlier criticized Carter's "stupidity": "All members of both political parties praised the President for his courage and were fully supportive of his operation." At week's end Carter prepared...
...Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant and looks like a smaller version of this year's Mirada and Cordoba. Its fuel economy and size will position it precisely against GM's hot-selling X cars. Reports TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Barrett Seaman: "If the market stays as dismal as it is and the public fails to take to the new small cars, no amount of federal guaranteed loans will save Chrysler...
...isolation of the town. The local timber merchant, Pritykin (Gary Bayer), hopes to grasp the railroad-ties concession in his sweaty palms. But mostly the villagers treat the coming of the engineers as if it were a visit from royalty, bringing a scent of urbanity to their drab dismal lives...
...relentless daily pounding of dismal news drives deeper the public's conviction that the economy is in a profound and morose crisis. Feverish inflation, previously a rare malady limited primarily to wartime, has become chronic. Price spurts once associated with profligate banana republics are now common to North America and Western Europe and threaten the foundations of democratic societies. With every sign showing that prices in the U.S. will continue soaring even as the nation begins slumping into recession, President Carter, his re-election jeopardized by the economy more than by anything else, is stuck in an economic morass...