Word: dismalness
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...spending was cut more than 20 percent. President Truman went further, reducing non-defense spending 28 percent in one year during the Korean War. Without the need for full mobilization, non-war and non-security expenditures will increase next year, though only at a modest 2 percent. The dismal fiscal and economic environment that followed the Vietnam War should be enough to alert anyone to the dangers of loading up on guns and butter...
...mild one like the one that may now be ending, big companies seem paralyzed by conventional thinking, unable to do the things that set apart leaders from failures. To illustrate this point, I’ll focus on a particularly vulnerable and hard-hit industry: PC vendors. The dismal state of the dominant players in the PC industry and the unusual success of some smaller companies send a clear message: to succeed in business, we would do well to break all the rules...
Harvard was able to adjust however, and bounced back from a dismal 19-point first-half performance to shoot a scintillating 56 percent from the field in the second half...
...sober wit of this comedy arises not from conventional artifice--snappy dialogue, wacky situations--but from a realistically drawn ensemble interacting truthfully with one another. And gently, insinuatingly rebelling against their dismal fate. --By Richard Schickel...
Lambert’s debut was the shining moment of an otherwise dismal meet for the Harvard men’s track team, whose 49.5 points easily outdistanced Brown’s 33 for second place, but fell well short of Cornell?...