Word: dismalness
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Except for what nature, in an eruption of volcanic anger, has left ugly and almost immutable, there was little visible to recall Kalaupapa's dismal history as the plane circled to land on a short but well-blacktopped strip. During the drive to the health department offices and the hospital with Dr. Leslie Charles Koch, chief of Hawaii's State Leprosy Control Program, who was making one of his twice-weekly visits to the colony, there were cheery waves and "Alohas" from patients...
...partially bankrolled by private money is tenant management, in which residents, after receiving training, take charge of public housing projects and work actively to provide themselves with a better living environment (see box). The performance in seven cities is spotty, but the results are a definite improvement over the dismal record of many other subsidized housing communities...
...soaring as high as 1052 at the start of 1973. But it has been a ride to nowhere; after all the ups and downs, the average is just about where it was a dozen years ago. Moreover, even those figures badly understate just how dismal the performance has been. Stock prices have been stagnating at best while prices of just about everything else have been soaring, and as a result the purchasing power of money invested in corporate stocks has drastically declined. If the Dow average in each month since January 1965 had been deflated by the rate of increase...
...biggest problem faced by Belarus dealers is the Soviet Union's deservedly dismal reputation for never having enough spare parts of anything on hand. Belarus has stockpiled a $5 million inventory of spares in its Milwaukee plant, where a team of Soviet mechanics works, and in its Toronto facility. Says Chambers flatly: "We are competitive in spare-parts service with any American company." Another help: Soviet farmers are often far from the nearest tractor dealer, so the tractors have been designed for quick and simple on-the-spot servicing...
...carries a pocket calculator, which he whips into action during esoteric discussions of international finance. A strict adherent of the obscure Sufi religious cult,* Witteveen, despite the intense pressures of his job, finds time to meditate every morning and evening. He sees no conflict between the practice of the dismal science and the mysticism of the Sufi. Says he: "The Sufi movement is above all differences of nationality and race...