Word: bleaknesses
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...thought of college basketball thriving in Las Vegas is slightly chilling. Of all the extracurricular activities, basketball might be the most worrisome to universities today. Chances are, at the bottom of the Iran-contra scandal is a basketball coach in a checkered jacket and plaid pants. As bleak history shows, the potential for corruption, particularly of a gambling kind, is potent enough in places like Kentucky and New York without putting a franchise in Gomorrah...
...Poor buggers!" says Merz, talking about her rhinos. Her eyes now flash bright indignation. "It is a sin and a crime that animals should be driven to the brink of extinction, especially by something as idiotic as a dagger handle!" The situation of the rhino is bleak. In 1970 there were 20,000 of them in Kenya. Now there are considerably fewer than 500. It strikes a visitor that Merz's rhinos live like a child kept in a germ-free bubble because of some defect in the immune system. The germs are the poachers. With rhino horns worth about...
Until such restructuring takes place, Europe is unlikely to make substantial progress against its chronic unemployment problem. Though some countries will show a slight improvement this year, the overall European jobless rate could remain stuck at 11%. The prognosis for a swift cure is bleak because manufacturers are continuing to trim their work forces as a way of containing costs and boosting productivity...
...trouble of finding out, how it felt to live in a small Midwestern town in the 1950s, when there was nothing better to chew on than last week's game and nothing better to savor than next Friday's. By laconically contrasting images of despair and hope -- bleak winter fields and the throbbing heat and noise of a jam-packed gym in the fourth quarter when the game is close -- Director Anspaugh achieves an admirable objectivity. He neither condemns nor justifies the sporting passion when it is distorted by claustrophobic pressure. He just tries to understand...
...Californian for the past two decades, I must take exception to Miss Grossman's recent editorial on Mexican immigrant workers in California. Miss Grossman paints a bleak picture of opulent Californians living off the fruits of Mexican "slave" labor...