Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents have become not spies but "bureaucrats." Frank Barnett of the National Strategy Information Center, a hawkish think tank, warned of a "Soviet window of opportunity" in the 1980s. Ray Cline, a former top CIA officer who now directs strategic and international studies at Georgetown University, offered a dismal report card on his old outfit: D- in covert activities, C- in counterintelligence, C- in information gathering. It is all very depressing to the OSS alumni...
What with the plot being so linear and the characters being so flat, there is nothing to hold one's attention except the sad reflection that the late .Robert Shaw (who plays the general, and whose last movie this is) spent too much of his career on such dismal efforts, as did Di rector Robson (The Champion), who has also died since principal photography was completed. Also present are Lee Mar vin, Linda Evans and Joe Namath, who wears cowboy getup to play a CIA type...
Nationwide opinion polls released last week showed that Carter is gaining among Democrats in trial heats against Kennedy. From a dismal 53%-to-16% deficit in July, the New York Times-CBS poll now places the President at 45% to 25% behind the Senator. Carter's approval rating in an Associated Press-NBC survey has risen to 24%, a climb of five points from a month ago. Better yet for Carter, this poll also disclosed that half of all Democrats now want him to seek reelection, a notable jump from...
...citizens have won Nobels in the sciences, more than half of the to tal number awarded and far more than America's nearest rivals: Britain, with 34; Germany, 13; the Soviet Union, 8; and France, 5. The record is nearly as impressive in what Thomas Carlyle called the "dismal science." Since the establishment of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 1968, Americans have carried off eight of the 17 medals awarded. In the most impressive U.S. Nobel coup, seven Americans made a clean sweep of the awards in 1976, winning in economics, literature and all of the sciences...
Innovation means more than just new air-blown popcorn poppers or home computer games for a society already overrun with gadgets. America's dismal economic record over the past decade largely reflects the decline of research and new product development. Growth in productivity, which measures a worker's output per hour, depends upon new machines and industrial processes that help the worker produce more. While U.S. productivity increased at a rate of 3.1% annually from 1955 to 1965, it increased at only 2.3% from 1965 to 1973. So far this year, productivity has been declining at an annual...