Word: bleakness
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Freshmen Elaine Sang and Marie Ciepiela rounded out the Crimson's bright sports in an otherwise bleak day. Sang won the 100-yd. backstroke and placed third in the 100-yd. fly. Ciepiela, meanwhile, swam to a season best in the 1000-yd. freestyle...
...your Essay "What Ever Became of the American Center?" [Dec. 19], you lament the death of the American center. Although you despair of both Democrats and Republicans, you offer the bleak observation that "third parties hi America gravitate not only to extremes but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies...
...Urban League's bleak findings were bolstered by another report released the same day that dealt with job discrimination. In a survey of major companies in the Boston area, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found blacks severely underrepresented in key industries. Even though minorities are generally better educated in Boston than in most other areas of the U.S., they are disproportionately concentrated in lower-paying jobs. Not one of Boston's electric, gas and sanitary-service companies has minority sales employees...
...skier's closest relationship is with the mountain. "I love to be on the hill in the morning when it's still dark," Phil says, "to make three or four runs just waiting for the sun to come up." Because of a bleak December and dismal snow in Europe, the brothers came home early from the World Cup tour to Yakima for practice over Christmas. So far, their best finishes have been a third for Steve and a ninth for Phil, who says, "It's funny sometimes how quickly everything can just click in. When everything...
...quarter of a century after the nations of sub-Saharan Africa began to gain their independence, that bleak view is shared by increasing numbers of Africans and non-Africans alike. The New Year's Eve coup in Nigeria was only the most recent recurrence of a pattern of failure that has gripped the continent. Black-ruled Africa is suffering today from a political and economic malaise that few could have imagined when British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke eloquently in 1960 of the "wind of change" then sweeping the continent...