Word: bleakness
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...everyone, perhaps. Associate Editor Claudia Wallis, whose husband Hugh Osborn cared for their year-old son while Wallis spent long nights at the office writing the story, was unconvinced by Hite's book. "I don't believe the world is as bleak for women as she says," Wallis observes. Associate Editor Martha Smilgis agrees. "I am surprised at how fast some men are changing to meet the new demands of working women." That sentiment was echoed by New York Correspondent Wayne Svoboda, who found the male experts he interviewed virtually (and, cynics might say, predictably) unanimous in their objection...
Champions again after 15 bleak Octobers, the Giants felt safe in Los Angeles last week until they were all thrown out of bed by the earthquake. "Oh jeez, this is it," Infielder Chris Speier thought, lifting himself off the floor. "The Reds are going to make the play-offs after all." Taking to the street barefoot, huddling away from the hotel in their underwear, the San Francisco players contemplated the fates. In August, after four straight games lost in the opponent's last at-bat, the Giants were five behind Cincinnati and facing a four-game Reds series and maybe...
...After a bleak period, women' s colleges are coming on strong by appealing to growing numbers of career- minded students...
...worst thing may be that Columbia's losing streak, while certainly the worst period in the school's history, is not the only bleak spot. The history of Columbia football is filled with bleak spots...
...deliveries, the result of an incomplete division of the fertilized egg in forming identical twins. Only one out of every 2 million births produces twins who are joined at the head. Because of the way the Binder babies were attached, their prospects were especially bleak. Without surgical intervention, says Rogers, who is chief of pediatric intensive care, "they would have had to remain bedridden for as long as they lived...