Word: dismalness
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Because of these dismal job prospects, Rosovsky says he fears "it will become difficult, and perhaps impossible, to continue to attract highly creative and intelligent young people to teaching and scholarship...
Champion Salazar, who hails from Weyland, Mass., edged out runner-up Michael Musyoki of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). UTEP took the team laurels, followed closely by Oregon and Wisconsin. Defending titleist Henry Rono of Washington State (the one team the harriers defeated) came home a dismal 192nd...
...major political blunder that undid Griffin last week. After announcing, in the spring of 1977, that he would not seek reelection, he began playing hooky from his Senate job, missing 216 roll calls that year. When he later changed his mind and entered the race, his dismal attendance record haunted him, even though he previously had a well-deserved reputation as a Washington workhorse. Exclaimed Levin repeatedly during the campaign: "If any one of us missed 216 days of work in a year, we'd be fired!" Michigan voters agreed...
...most women congressional candidates, it was a dismal election week. One, Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected to the Senate, but the two women who are already there are leaving: Muriel Humphrey of Minnesota and Maryon Allen of Alabama. Forty-five women ran for Congress, but only 16 won election, two fewer than...
...taken the other side. They're worried about the 60-odd parking spaces on Mass. Ave. which may be permanently lost. Some of them are predicting that they will have to relocate or go into bankruptcy because of the disruption of traffic and business. The scene they foresee is dismal at best...