Word: dismalness
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What disturbed TIME's team most, though, was the dismal prospects facing these youngsters. Chicago Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor interviewed 30 pregnant teens and young mothers, including one named Stephanie. Says Taylor: "After Stephanie had her second baby, I wanted to bring her a present. I thought, what does she need? And I realized she didn't have anything. They have these babies because they want somebody to love. And they all echo that familiar American dream: they want to give their children more than they have had. But only a few will ever be able...
...League Championships, which were held April 16-17 at Ballyowen Golf Club in Hamburg, N.J. The frosty conditions underscored what amounted to a gloomy season for the Harvard men’s golf team, which finished last at the tournament and did not win during a dismal spring...
Except the dismal science, of course, where Rao excelled, although his beginnings in economics were inauspicious...
...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...
...catapulted to number two on the New York Times bestseller list. Levitt joins a rising tide of economists—from Columbia’s Jeffrey D. Sachs ’75 to MIT’s Paul Krugman—who are making their “dismal science” accessible to psych concentrators and pre-meds like...