Word: dismalness
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...learn that. Wednesday evening on CBS, President George W. Bush talked with Couric and the world about his secret baby, the CIA's clandestine prisons. (Suri, naturally, got higher ratings.) Compelled by the Supreme Court to find a legal way of trying detainees and by dismal polls and midterms to argue for his antiterrorism strategy, the President whose Administration once defied the press to claim the prisons existed now gamely said they had--and here are the baby pictures, Katie...
Employees know, however, that even a new headquarters doesn't guarantee a better operation. "Buildings don't win games. Players do," says Kurt Warner, the veteran starting quarterback who led the team to a dismal 5-11 season last year. But buildings can produce income. The stadium could generate an additional $60 million in revenue, since the team keeps two-thirds of ticket sales and all the money from suites. The Bidwills can bank on an additional $25 million or more in estimated annual profits (on top of the $16.5 million Forbes calculates the team made in 2004), according...
...Halutz's two superiors, Prime Minster Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz, are also in dismal shape with Israelis. A Haaretz newpaper poll on the eve of the U.N.sponsored truce with Hizballah showed Olmert's approval rating dropping from 75% at the start of the Lebanon campaign to 48%. Peretz fell even lower, from 65% to 37%. After the cease-fire, opposed by many Israelis who thought that Olmert buckled to international pressure and gave up the fight against Hizballah too soon, the Prime Minister's popularity may well have fallen even further...
Decades of downsizing have turned GM into a retirement home with a car factory in back. Every active U.S. employee supports 3.2 retirees and surviving spouses, amounting to "legacy costs" of about $1,500 per vehicle and wiping out profits on all but the priciest models. Yet that dismal state also makes CEO Rick Wagoner's plan fairly straightforward: shrink GM to a defensible market share. Then wait for the retiree costs to go down, around 2010, as GM vets increasingly qualify for Social Security and Medicare. To bridge itself to 2010, GM is shedding factories and workers, offering buyout...
...battles, which occurred the day after Abbas went to Gaza for meetings with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, in which they sought unsuccessfully to find ways to solve a financial crisis that stands to make 2006 "the worst year in the West Bank and Gaza's dismal recent economic history," according to a newly issued World Bank report...