Word: dismalness
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...unemployment statistics climaxed a week of dismal economic news. In his budget message to Congress (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), President Ford revealed that high rates of inflation and unemployment would last well into 1976, when he plans to run for election. Prices, he acknowledged, would still be rising more than 7% a year, and the jobless rate would still hover around 7¾%. The figures jolted both parties. Senator Hubert Humphrey found it "unbelievable" that Ford could propose record deficits and not "put America back to work." Calling political prospects "pretty scary," G.O.P. Senator Robert Dole, who barely won re-election...
Small as it is, there is something for everyone in New Jersey, including some things nobody really wants. The state possesses some of the finest beaches on the Atlantic coast, and one of the most dismal lunar landscapes of swamp, industrial waste, and smelly oil refineries to be found in the U.S. Its nearly 8 million people live in communities as diverse as the grinding black ghettoes of Newark, the elegant $200,000 homes of Short Hills and Princeton, and the Rockwellian small towns of Cumberland County that preserve the life-style of an earlier, simpler America...
After a while prolific artists cannibalize their own work: You 're a Big Girl Now is a lesser Just Like a Woman. From a working poet, a line like "They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn" is a dismal cliche...
Bill Carey once again led the Crimson in scoring with 12 points, but no other Harvard prayer was able to register more than eight. The fact that the Crimson's shooting percentage was a dismal 364 goes a long way in explaining the game's outcome...
...results of the rebates have been encouraging. Before they went into effect in mid-January, auto sales were 15% below the miserable levels of a year ago, when the energy crisis clobbered car sales. The rebates were largely responsible for the boost in sales from a dismal 93,235 cars in the first ten days of January to 133,000 cars during the second ten days of the month. Dealers claim that volume has climbed substantially since then. Tom Shanley, an American Motors executive responsible for sales in six Southern states, says that his dealers "have had the greatest increase...