Word: bleakness
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...boys look at the future with despair. "It is very bleak," says Tsepho, kicking aimlessly at a bare wall. He had to quit school, has no job, will probably never get one. "I've given up my dreams. I have no hope...
...courts and the Justice Department are arbiters for many diverse ethnic groups who seek intervention for social injustice. Even if Ashcroft's heart is pure, his failure to implement voluntary busing of schoolchildren as part of a Missouri desegregation program showed racial insensitivity. FARIBORZ MOHAMADI Lake Forest, Ill. A Bleak St. Petersburg
...President whose vocabulary of international diplomacy includes words like "Kosovonians" and "strategery" and who still thinks that Foreign Affairs is a porno mag, the prospect of crafting a bold, new, intelligent foreign policy appears bleak. Yet despite President Bush's limited knowledge on such matters, his administration is poised to drastically alter the course of U.S. policy abroad...
...doing fine. And if they're hiring, then people are still getting out and spending money. Consumer spending accounts for two thirds of the U.S. economy, and it's a big factor in the intensity of any slowdown. So although consumers' expectations of the next six months are pretty bleak, as we saw in this week's consumer confidence index report of January, that pessimism isn't showing up with nearly as much force in their day-to-day activity. (Exhibit B: Surprisingly strong January car sales...
...Lewis. Just after Superbowl XXXIV, Lewis was charged in the stabbing deaths of two men after a brawl. He was mentioned in the same breath as former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth, who was involved in killing his pregnant girlfriend. Even after the legal matter was settled, things looked bleak...