Word: dismalness
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...during his standout freshman year, when he averaged 13.2 points per game in winning the league’s rookie honors. Since that season, Pattman has faced a good measure of adversity, missing all but four games of his sophomore year due to injury, suffering through a dismal 6-21 Dartmouth campaign last season in which he averaged 10.9 points and started only 14 of the team’s games, and being shelved to start this year with the ankle ailment.Now, however, Pattman looks to be finally realizing the tremendous potential he flashed three years...
...dismal science reigns supreme among undergraduates at Harvard, and it is discussed almost endlessly. With roughly 750 students, economics—that fertile training ground for future i-bankers, equity analysts and portfolio managers—is the single most popular concentration at Harvard. And Harvard’s economics department is one of the best in the world...
...financial normalcy, the bombings prove just how fragile such promises can be. "This is a military government, but it can't maintain security," says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "On the economy, they've had major setbacks. The post-coup management has been dismal...
...some famous regional department-store names--Marshall Field's, Famous-Barr, Kaufmann's, Filene's--experienced a strong 8.5% increase in same-store sales for November. Sears, which combined with Kmart in 2004, is still struggling. And Wal-Mart, in the throes of a mammoth, disruptive restructuring, reported a dismal 0.1% drop in sales...
...teams, but that parity has to this point not appreciably weakened the power of the dual league juggernauts. Attendance is also a major issue—so far this year, five Ivy teams are drawing well less than 1,000 fans per game, with Columbia clocking in with a dismal average of 349 spectators...