Word: dismalness
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...week removed from a dismal first half showing in Providence, the Harvard offense made the most of its limited time of possession...
...more decrepit buildings came down in June in Weinbergweg, a leafy suburb of the dismal industrial city of Halle in the former East Germany. In the 1970s, Halle was the G.D.R.'s center for chemical production and one of its most heavily industrialized cities. But 14 years after East Germany's unification with West Germany, the city's chemical factories are closed, and some 75,000 residents--a quarter of the total--have moved away in search of jobs. So many people have left Halle, in fact, that the city is demolishing scores of vacant apartment blocks...
...unpromising as things are for ordinary Philippine workers, they are equally dismal for the government, which has been nursing a budget deficit that has ballooned fourfold since 1998 to $3.6 billion last year. Manila has been borrowing heavily to run the government?since 1998, public-sector debt has increased by 83% to $96.8 billion, a rate of growth that many say is unsustainable. Without significant changes, "we'll have bigger problems down the road," warns deputy central-bank governor Amando Tetangco, "including the possibility of a crisis...
...goes into books and solves crimes there. If, say, somebody were to kidnap Jane Eyre out of Jane Eyre (which happened in The Eyre Affair, the first Thursday Next novel), Thursday would be on the case. This is what the British call silliness, and people generally find it either dismal or delightful. If you're in the latter camp, prepare to be delighted by Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten (Viking; 385 pages), the fourth book in the Next series...
...This time it seems to be getting around a bit more widely,” he said. “After three years of dismal record, people seem more inclined to believe that all his failed leadership was apparent during the Harvard Business School years...