Word: dismalness
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...easy. Polls show that a thin majority of Israelis want to get rid of settlements. But Olmert's dismal approval ratings have forced him into a marriage of convenience with the pro-settlement right wing. A large-scale campaign to evacuate Jewish settlers could produce more clashes like the one that erupted last January in an outpost called Amona, when an army effort to dislodge a few families left 200 soldiers and settlers injured. Another outbreak of violence could bring down Olmert's centrist government, which would probably hand power to hawkish parties who are in no mood to make...
...John Walker, Jerry Whitworth, Vitaly Yurchenko and all the others have turned the genre of spy fiction into a reflection of a dismal reality. Kevin M. McGehee Sacramento...
...unlikely to work for professors. For TFs, good CUE ratings translate to job offers; for tenured faculty, this is irrelevant. (Moreover, in many departments in which there are generally more specific class requirements, ratings are irrelevant. If you must take Chem 60 to graduate, you will, regardless of its dismal CUE rating...
...Economic forecasting is a dismal science, and this year could well turn out to be very different from the "happy slowdown" that Goldman's O'Neill predicts. Here are some of the factors that will influence the outcome...
...passengers waiting at security, on container and cargo controls, on cumbersome border checks, on the expansion of police and intelligence personnel - not to speak of the nonmonetary costs of civil liberties curtailed. On the other hand, globalization just gallops along. "We told you so," hard-core practitioners of the dismal science might crow. "Economics beats politics any time." The mighty dynamics of expansion seem to bear them out. So does the history of the first globalization, from 1850-1914. There were lots of small wars then: the Crimean one, the wars of German unification, a spate of long-forgotten battles...