Word: grim
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...chums Jimmy Carter brought with him to Washington has found himself the subject of more attention, flattering or otherwise, than Hamilton Jordan, the young (33), feet-up presidential pal and political strategist who is the White House's closest equivalent to a chief of staff. Last week was particularly grim for Jordan, both personally and professionally. Late in the week, he was hurriedly summoned home to Albany, Ga., after his father, Richard Jordan, 69, a retired insurance agent and former Army major, suffered a stroke (he died the following day). Earlier, Jordan and the White House as a whole...
Almost all the people who went to college from about 1965 through 1972, even the tamest ones, were deeply and permanently affected by the tumult of those wild and grim times. The so-called '60s kids clearly constitute a group apart, markedly different from the gang that graduated in the 1950s and early 1960s, who celebrated football, proms and exclusive fraternities, and somewhat different from the more conventional, career-directed students of today. Yet it was not difficult for corporations to recruit the '60s kids. As products of the postwar baby boom, they faced stiff competition for places...
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Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said yesterday the bill would "obviously decrease the number of tenured jobs," but added that it would be only "a small perturbation in an already grim picture...
...situation at Harvard seems grim, it's no more grim than at many other colleges in Boston. Other schools are coping with the dilemma posed by high student interest and lack of funding in various ways...