Word: dismalness
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Even the "we almost won" game against Princeton the night before reinforced Coach Frank McLaughlin's words about the dismal beginning of the season: "We knew we were going to lose but it was going to be exciting...
After years of dismal earnings, the major carriers registered a combined record $600 million profit last year, up from $343 million in 1976. Profits this year are expected by several Wall Street investment analysts to rise to the $700 million area. True, much of the recent increase has come not from flying but from plane sales, tax credits and hotel subsidiaries. Indeed, some carriers?Eastern, TWA, Northwest, Western?show declining operating profits. But the competition for passengers, especially nonbusiness travelers who make up 48% of the traffic, is certain to remain intense. So the number of low-cost fares will...
...presents his most extensive look yet at The Road; the album was recorded live on tour last summer, and the material deals exclusively with the traveling life of the pop star. As a concept album, it's a real triumph; as a Jackson Browne album, however, it's a dismal flop...
...future Harvard undergraduates if the convention fails. "I don't think students realize how serious this is," he says. "The students must not be divided on the question of student government. If our efforts fail, the future of any type of student government at Harvard will be quite dismal...
...improve on the dismal G.O.P. performance, Brock hired a firm of black political consultants in Columbus, Ga., promoted the appointment of blacks to organize Southern states for the G.O.P. and visited Georgia and Mississippi to see what else could be done. Last November two top officials of the Mississippi Republican Party created a stir by making an unprecedented appearance at the state's convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "We're not likely to attract a large number of blacks," concedes Kansas Senator (and former G.O.P. chairman) Robert Dole, "but we can attract...