Word: dismalness
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More so still, for a season in which most had written off Harvard’s chances after a dismal showing in November, Corriero and company are still gunning to do what past stars in Harvard’s past could not accomplish: go out with a championship...
Early in Twain’s novel Huck laments “how dismal regular and decent” his life with Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas has become. His complaint could serve as a harsh but not wholly inaccurate description of Rawles’ book. Rawles—or perhaps those marketing her—seem to have failed to recognize that the moral complexities My Jim purports to expose are already present in Huck’s own narrative. While Rawles has provided a reasonably interesting supplement to Twain’s book...
Economists, of course, are famously dismal in outlook, but these questions were also on the table at this month's meeting of G-7 finance ministers in London, and for some, they have a historical echo. The two Americans on TIME's panel, Jeffrey Sachs, the director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a former national economic adviser to President Bill Clinton who is now dean of the London Business School, see eerie similarities with economic conditions of almost 20 years ago. As Ronald Reagan began his second term in 1985, the dollar was sliding...
...consummate celebrity CEO--right up until her final moment. Just a few weeks ago, the Hewlett-Packard board rapped her on the wrist for the company's dismal performance and ordered her to give some control of HP's four key divisions to line executives. Outwardly, her ever-confident manner gave no hint of the humiliating demotion, even after the reorganization leaked to the press. But charisma and confidence can go only so far. On Feb. 6, board members held an emergency meeting at an O'Hare Airport hotel. The next day they asked her to step down...
...Fiorina incur her board's ire? In part, it was simple hubris. HP's directors had been voicing unhappiness with her performance for months, particularly after some dismal earnings numbers were posted last summer. Increasingly disillusioned with her inability to deliver the profits she promised, the board was stung by her refusal to make changes or relinquish operating responsibility in HP's floundering computer business. "She played a brinkmanship game and didn't realize the other side wouldn't budge," says Rob Enderle, a tech analyst in San Jose, Calif. "It's a game she's used to playing...