Word: dismalness
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Pointing to the dismal record of the nearby Fletcher-Maynard School, both incumbents and challengers bemoaned the city’s record on education...
Within a few years, according to last year’s RUS proposal, Harvard’s first women’s center had failed “due to lack of consistent funds.” It was an inauspicious beginning, and subsequent attempts met similarly dismal fates...
...character of Lincoln in Shenk’s book is one who deprecated himself after his hugely successful speech to financial leaders at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York in 1860, who wrote dismal verses about death and suicide, who emanated sorrow that at once frightened and attracted people near...
Perhaps most damaging, however, was the open letter some California Republicans issued last week denouncing the Governor's dismal record on placing Latinos in key posts and calling the state G.O.P. "morally wrong and politically stupid" for its shoddy treatment of Latino candidates. Jim Lopez, state chairman for the Republican National Hispanic Assembly and an Arnold booster, said of those who signed the letter, "If these folks wanted miracles, maybe they should have elected St. Augustine." Stranger people have made it into office. --By Jeffrey Ressner
...invest in something that's popular when it's popular is the kiss of death," says Amit Wadhwaney, manager of the New York--based Third Avenue International Value Fund. Indeed, there's no more reliable way of earning dismal long-term returns than betting on what's hot. Consider some of the many ill-fated outbreaks of investor madness that have gripped Asia in recent decades: the giddiness over Japanese stocks in the late 1980s, the Hong Kong property bubble of the 1990s, euphoria over Chinese red chips in 1996-97 and the mad rise of Thai banking stocks before...