Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future Harvard undergraduates if the convention fails. "I don't think students realize how serious this is," he says. "The students must not be divided on the question of student government. If our efforts fail, the future of any type of student government at Harvard will be quite dismal...
...improve on the dismal G.O.P. performance, Brock hired a firm of black political consultants in Columbus, Ga., promoted the appointment of blacks to organize Southern states for the G.O.P. and visited Georgia and Mississippi to see what else could be done. Last November two top officials of the Mississippi Republican Party created a stir by making an unprecedented appearance at the state's convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "We're not likely to attract a large number of blacks," concedes Kansas Senator (and former G.O.P. chairman) Robert Dole, "but we can attract...
...produce 1,285 new church members in a week's work? Graham's results, moreover, are far better than those from Bill Bright's much ballyhooed "Here's Life, America" campaign. In a study of Indianapolis and Fresno, Arn's institute found that a dismal 97% of the people who made "decisions to accept Christ" over the telephone never joined a church...
...Dismal examples of how not to grow are easy enough to find. The magnificent setting of Anchorage, Alaska, for example, has already been tainted by a sprawl of thousands of mobile homes. Much of southern California's coastline is a jagged scar of freeways and factories that bar the way to the sea. Washington, at least, has caught a glimpse of the future and is not at all sure that it works. So has neighboring Oregon, which has decided to throttle back on growth and has developed a master plan requiring its 276 local governments to work out their...
...more than halfway through Scott's "fiveyear plan" for making A. & P. solidly profitable, the results are dismal. Last month A. & P. reported that earnings in the quarter ended Aug. 27, the second period of its fiscal year, dropped a sickening 88% below a year earlier, even though sales rose 2.4%. After that news broke, President Gentry resigned. He has been succeeded by David W. Morrow, 46, who once worked with Chairman Scott at Albertson's, a food and drug chain based in Boise, Idaho. Though A. & P. is closemouthed about the profit crash and the executive shift...