Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young blacks between the ages of 16 and 22 it approaches 40%, nearly three times as high as for their white peers, and that does not count those who, in total despair, have dropped out of the search for work altogether. Job programs have been cut, housing remains dismal, education still fails to motivate...
...interesting, and the artfulness with which it is recorded becomes secondary (Lady Bird Johnson's White House Diary ); sometimes that relation is inverted, and clever treatment makes dull material zippy ( Cleo from 5 to 7. Warhol's novel-transcription a); sometimes neither event nor method is engaging, and the dismal result is a CBS Miss America pageant, or Windsong...
SENATE liberals have a lot to answer for. The Senate is the only body of government capable of standing up to the President on the war. Yet with few exceptions, Senators have had dismal records in opposing the war. They passed the Tonkin Gulf Rseolution in 1965 which enabled President Johnson to expand the war. They watered down the Cooper-Church amendment and voted down the Hatfield-McGovern plan. They continue to authorize and appropriate funds for the war with scarcely a whisper of opposition...
With a few exceptions, the record of the social forecasters is even more dismal than that of their brethren in the physical sciences. In 1784 the Marquis de Condorcet, a leading mathematician and philosopher of the Enlightenment, saw a placid present and looked forward to an even more placid future. "The great probability," he said, "is that we will have fewer great changes and fewer large revolutions to expect from the future than from the past. The prevailing spirit of moderation and peace seems to assure us that henceforth wars will be less frequent." Reverse everything and Condorcet would have...
...when unemployment had reached 11.11% of the population. Congress passed Franklin Roosevelt's Social Security Act. It included aid to the unemployed, the old, the blind, and children dependent on adults who could no longer care for even themselves. Unemployment-insurance benefits were, and still are, a dismal way station for many on the road to total dependence. When the temporary payments stop, the only recourse is welfare...