Word: gloomier
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...decrease in the number of male applicants accepted. Reducing the male student body spelled disaster to Pusey who declared at the February Faculty meeting: "Call this male chauvinist if you like. There are many people here who would be unhappy to see the number of men reduced." Peterson had gloomier predictions, if Harvard reduced male admissions, he prophesied "such heightened frustrations and negative feedback as might literally destroy the richness of our applicant pool, our national schools committee apparatus and the interest of the secondary schools they contact...
What makes things gloomier still for the Energy establishment--government agencies and private power and oil companies--is the realization that some old panaceas aren't going to save the day, after...
...which affects some of the nation's largest defense suppliers, including General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Litton Industries and Textron's Bell Helicopter division, was shock enough. But even as businessmen wondered if additional deals were about to collapse, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger brought up an even gloomier subject: the increasing chances for an outright oil shortage. He warned of the looming squeeze in some of the scariest terms yet used by any Administration official. He told a Senate committee that the six-week-old Iranian oil shutoff could turn out to be "prospectively more serious" than...
...that pretty soon Jimmy Carter would take hold of things. Now we are saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter had damn well better take hold of things." Some Democratic congressional leaders in particular warn that they have just about given up on the President. Says one top congressional insider, gloomier and grouchier than most: "The possibility of rapport is gone. Like a bad marriage, it's just gone sour beyond repair." Dissatisfaction and discouragement are showing up even inside the White House, with key staffers complaining about the sloppy way the Administration is being...
Though it is gloomier than some previous reports, the conclusion is not brand new. What makes it weighty is its global authorship. The report ("Energy: Global Prospects 1985-2000") is the product of a 2½-year study by the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies, a group organized by MIT Professor Carroll Wilson. He assembled 35 industrial, government and academic experts from twelve oil-importing nations and three exporters: Iran, Mexico and Venezuela. They plotted likely oil demand and supply under a wide range of assumptions: high and low rates of economic growth, "vigorous" and "restrained" government conservation policies...