Word: bleakness
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...University in Washington, ran ads in educational journals for two deanships, one in arts and sciences, the other in the law school. Hundreds of responses poured in, but not a single one, Berendzen noted, was from a black applicant. At about the same time, Patricia Snyder, 42, faced the bleak prospect of having to abandon her graduate studies in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) because she could not meet her annual tuition and off-campus living expenses of $16,000. If she had left, the department's black graduate- student body would have been reduced...
...days later the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence sounded a similarly bleak note. The panel released a report predicting that the Marcos regime could fall in three years. The committee chairman, Republican Senator David Durenburger of Minnesota, went so far as to call on Marcos to step down. "Our patience is running out," added Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. "I don't think President Marcos has gotten the word...
Despite that bravura performance, the bleak outlook for the Marcos regime remained unchanged. "It's as if the central nervous system has broken down," said a U.S. policymaker. "Orders are issued at the center, but nothing happens in the provinces." The situation did little to convince the Reagan Administration that Marcos could meet what has emerged as the principal U.S. demands: military reform, open elections and an efficient economy freed from the corrupt grasp of Marcos' cronies. The ultimate fear: an eventual Communist takeover that would result in the loss of a longtime ally and deprive the U.S. of critical...
...prospects for an Ivy League crown look almost as bleak. Cornell (5-0 Ivy) and Columbia (3-0-1)--both '85 victors over the Crimson--are far ahead of the rest of the Ancient Eight pack...
...leaks, the groups reported, "every one of the sites examined is leaking, without exception; and every one is out of compliance with currently applicable regulations." Wastes placed in them from other failed sites may soon have to be picked up and moved once again. The result is a bleak game of chemical leapfrog...