Word: dismalness
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...severance payments usually due when an employee is laid off. Since those protections often make the country's employers wary of bringing on new hires, Villepin has made the "First Employment Contract" law the centerpiece of his effort to cut unemployment among 25-year-olds-and-less from its dismal rate of 22% - and as much as twice that much in the troubled cit?s of the "banlieues," the outlying suburbs (where many descendants of North African and sub-Saharan immigrants live) which exploded in violence last fall...
...started with a good idea. The man who had it was Alan Moore, probably the greatest writer in the history of comic books. In 1982 Moore--who also wrote Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--began publishing an almost unbearably dark series of comic books set in a dismal, dystopic future Britain ruled by an oppressive Orwellian government. V for Vendetta starred, instead of a superhero, a bitter, brilliant, at least half-insane resistance fighter known only as V, whose face was permanently hidden behind a grinning mask that, if you're English, you recognize as the face...
...report also recommends that the Defense Department do more, sooner after a big disaster, helping to expedite search and rescue operations, as well as evacuations and the delivery of supplies. But this is a not exactly a new idea. The same recommendation came out after the government?s dismal response to Hurricane Andrew in 1992. For political, legal and historical reasons, this is much easier said than done...
...League during that campaign—the school’s worst in over 50 years—the Crimson managed to pull off a spirited upset of Yale at home to snap a six-game losing streak, the highlight of an otherwise mostly dismal year...
...League during that campaign—the school’s worst in over 50 years—the Crimson managed to pull off a spirited upset of Yale at home to snap a six game losing streak, the highlight of an otherwise mostly dismal year. Two years and four days later, on Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion, there would be no reenactment of that streak-snapping victory. Instead of serving as a high point, the team’s 77-66 loss to the Bulldogs—Harvard’s fifth straight loss and fourth...