Word: bleakness
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...things," he says. "I grew up in San Francisco in the '60s, and my positions are sort of shaped by that...If you look back 30 years ago, there were certain issues with the Kennedys, with Richard Nixon, that focused my interest." Lucas' own geopolitics can sound pretty bleak: "All democracies turn into dictatorships--but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea...What kinds of things push people and institutions into this direction...
Although the Philadelphia school system has a bleak record for academic performance, a state panel’s decision to transfer control of 42 public schools to private organizations is the wrong remedy and threatens the mission of public education. The plan, approved last week by a bitterly divided Pennsylvania School Reform Commission, places 20 formerly-public schools under the power of the for-profit corporation Edison Schools Inc., five under the control of Temple University, three under the University of Pennsylvania and the remainder under four lesser-known organizations. These firms will exercise full control of school budgets...
...Stanford and Yale could cause trouble for Bush's welfare-reform plans. Funded in part by the Department of Health and Human Services since the Clinton Administration, the report charts the effects of 1996 welfare reforms on more than 700 mothers and their young children. The overall picture is bleak. While mothers' earnings rose modestly, many still lived in roach-infested housing, had to skimp on food and spent fewer hours singing and telling stories to their children. One bright spot: toddlers in day-care centers cognitively outpaced their peers in home settings by three months or more...
Although there have been many bleak projections about the Sun’s future in such a competitive marketplace, Stoll said they are not deterred...
...book has garnered mixed reviews for its literary qualities—many passages are taken directly from Charles Dickens’ novel, Bleak House, among other sentimental 19th-century works...