Word: bleakness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...asylum seekers who landed in Southeast Asia before governments in the region stopped guaranteeing them refugee status, there was good news: resettlement countries such as the U.S., Canada and Australia agreed to take in 55,000 more escapees. But for those who arrived later, the outlook was bleak. Only the few who can prove that they left to avoid persecution and not just to escape economic privation will be eligible to enter other countries. The rest will be encouraged and perhaps eventually forced to return home. But at the moment, Viet Nam is refusing to take them back...
...Each day at New York City's Montefiore Medical Center, women infected with the AIDS virus ask if they can still have children. Patients are told that chances are greater than 1 in 4 that their child would be born with the virus. The prognosis for these children is bleak, especially since they may be orphaned...
Even faster than that, news of the vote by 40% of Sacramento's electorate spread fresh hope among the opponents of nuclear power all over the U.S. The development countered a bleak mood stirred up among antinukers recently by two Nuclear Regulatory Commission actions. In the first, the NRC issued an operating permit to New York's Shoreham nuclear power plant, though its owner, the Long Island Lighting Co., had agreed to dismantle it. Then the NRC decided to permit a limited go-ahead for the controversial Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant. Thousands of activists demonstrated against the start...
Many economists foresee bleak prospects for millions of Americans no matter what the Federal Reserve does next. Noting that wages jumped a strong 0.7% in April despite a rise in unemployment, some experts argue that the Federal Reserve must push interest rates higher to keep inflation from heating up. But opponents of that prescription say it would do more harm than good. "The greatest threat to the economy now is not inflation, but recession," says Irwin Kellner, chief economist for Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York City. "If the Fed doesn't relax its grip within two to four months...
...intense Sammi Davis) races dangerously close to the water, reaching out for the title symbol. As she leaves home in the final sequence, another rainbow arches above her, beckoning her onward. In between, she experiments with lesbian and heterosexual lovers (Amanda Donohoe and Paul McGann, respectively), endures a bleak passage as a teacher in a working-class school and witnesses the end of an Edenesque England. All these experiences test her, stir her questing spirit and lead her finally to feminist independence, which was never more attractively stated than it was in these early, innocent days...