Word: dismalness
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...produce 1,285 new church members in a week's work? Graham's results, moreover, are far better than those from Bill Bright's much ballyhooed "Here's Life, America" campaign. In a study of Indianapolis and Fresno, Arn's institute found that a dismal 97% of the people who made "decisions to accept Christ" over the telephone never joined a church...
...Dismal examples of how not to grow are easy enough to find. The magnificent setting of Anchorage, Alaska, for example, has already been tainted by a sprawl of thousands of mobile homes. Much of southern California's coastline is a jagged scar of freeways and factories that bar the way to the sea. Washington, at least, has caught a glimpse of the future and is not at all sure that it works. So has neighboring Oregon, which has decided to throttle back on growth and has developed a master plan requiring its 276 local governments to work out their...
...more than halfway through Scott's "fiveyear plan" for making A. & P. solidly profitable, the results are dismal. Last month A. & P. reported that earnings in the quarter ended Aug. 27, the second period of its fiscal year, dropped a sickening 88% below a year earlier, even though sales rose 2.4%. After that news broke, President Gentry resigned. He has been succeeded by David W. Morrow, 46, who once worked with Chairman Scott at Albertson's, a food and drug chain based in Boise, Idaho. Though A. & P. is closemouthed about the profit crash and the executive shift...
...After a dismal showing in the opener last Wednesday night against UMass, Caryn Curry, Harvard's talented floor general, found the touch, putting in 13 points and adding her usual impressive total of assists and rebounds. Forward Hildy Meyers also chipped in ten points from her forward slot...
This weekend, the men's team placed a distant ninth in the 12-team fleet at the Atlantic Coast championships at Yale, rounding out an up-and-down fall season. But despite the dismal showing against the victorious Elis, coach Michael Horn has reason to look forward to an interesting spring season. Remembering the triumphs of last fall--last week's impressive victory in the War Memorial Trophy regatta against a fleet that included Yale and a host of other New England powerhouses, as well as the early-season victory in the Penobscot Bay Open regatta--all Horn...