Word: dismalness
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...paper or anything like that." He realized that of his two collapsing careers, only his academics were salvageable, so after football ended his work improved dramatically. But the adjustment period was painful, and Marglin, who says he has never made friends easily, remembers his freshman year as "pretty dismal in almost every...
...large extent, political stability in Portugal will depend on the government's skill in solving the country's economic problems. Unemployment has been aggravated by the return of thousands of troops from the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, and another dismal tourist season like last year's could prove disastrous. Moreover, both Soares and Communist Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal recently stressed in interviews with TIME that the biggest problem will be to find the experienced personnel to run the newly nationalized industries. "We don't want to substitute state capitalism for a monopolistic one," said Soares...
...sometimes changes his mind in response. That is surely better than a President so stubborn and isolated that his first conclusions are never challenged and corrected. But it also dilutes Ford's leadership because he can end up saying one thing today and another tomorrow. Thus the dismal State of the World address blaming Congress for the collapse of South Viet Nam was succeeded last week by his lofty Tulane speech consigning the tragedy of Viet Nam to history and calling for "a great national reconciliation." Earlier his battle against inflation became his battle against recession, though in that...
...Communist Vietnam is probably the least dismal of the bleak alternatives that have faced the Vietnamese people. But in its editorial "A Free Vietnam" The Crimson makes use of a ludicrously biased view of Communism to display an utterly unwarranted enthusiasm for a Communist takeover...
...more than 14 bumpy months, the U.S. economy has been headed in one dismal direction: down. Now, slight to moderate improvements in several indicators lead many economists and businessmen to say that while the economy is still skidding, it is declining at a slower rate. The belief is widespread, though not unanimous, that it will probably hit bottom in three or four months. Summed up Donald C. Miller, executive vice president of Continental Illinois Bank: "Over the past ten days or so, we seem to be picking up better feelings, some end to the steady drumbeat of bad news...