Word: dismalness
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...Blame Game Not for nothing do they call economics the dismal science. Consensus held that a plummeting dollar - making U.S. exports more affordable - and a drop-off in the price of oil would shrink the country's yawning trade deficit. Instead, it leapt to a record $60.3 billion in November, up from $56 billion a month earlier. How to explain the missed call? Moody's Investors Service labeled it "an atrocious month for U.S. exports," suggesting "ineffective business and government leadership may be to blame." But U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow found a handier target: America 's major trading partners...
...government need to boost saving and rein in spending, Eichengreen insists. If the U.S won't stop living beyond its means, foreign financing for the U.S. 's current account deficit "could dry up." That really would be dismal. Losing The Controls The French government has pledged to support "national champions" in strategic industries vital to the country, such as pharmaceuticals, aircraft manufacturing and... video games? Amid a national debate over industry policy, Paris is close to a deal to give 325 million in annual tax subsidies to France's video game publishers, on top of the 35 million it already...
...school teachers have recently discovered hypodermic needles, human waste and condoms, thought to be discarded by homeless individuals. Unlike other municipalities, Cambridge allows the belongings of the homeless to remain unattended in public parks for two days before forced removal—a well-intentioned policy with dismal results. Advocates for the homeless have offered a reasonable, compassionate solution that should be adopted: create a lost-and-found and/or provide indoor lockers for storage...
...brisk tone of Caley's journal offers little praise for his surroundings. The names he bestows along the way - the Devil's Wilderness, Dismal Dingle (a valley "like a coal-pit"), Dark Valley - hint at his impressions. When his men spotted two crows, they joked that the birds must be lost, "or else they would never stop in such a place as this." Climbing in the heat through one windless gully after another, pushing through prickly scrub amid leeches, flies and furious ants, sweaty and smeared with charcoal from burned trees, it's understandable why he spent little time...
Stehle’s tremendous individual season, however, came in the midst of a dismal 4-23 campaign for the Crimson, which struggled mightily throughout the year to a last-place finish in the Ivy League...