Word: bleakness
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...last thing young people expect from these four men. Jospin is excused to some degree because France's President, Jacques Chirac, is still largely responsible for foreign policy and Jospin is preoccupied with getting his own country back on track. But among Blair, Clinton and Schroder, the situation is bleak. And yet whom do we have to blame? I don't have faith in the slick sell of these career politicians, and I voted for one. And I probably would have voted for Blair and Schroder, too, if I had been in a position...
Color forecasters don't arbitrarily decide what hues should overtake your closet tomorrow, Robinson explains. Rather, they attempt to match colors with socioeconomic projections: bad economic forecasts, for example, might suggest bleak, subdued colors...
GRAY FOR YOUR ANATOMY Storm clouds, very dead leaves, the rocks one passes on long fall walks: who knows what the inspiration is, but this season gray is red hot. Almost any gray will do, from a steely blue to a light fog. Just keep it bleak...and chic...
...Yeltsin era is over and Russia's future is uncertain. Prospects for economic reform are bleak. Whether or not Yeltsin remains in office, power will be in the hands of Viktor Chernomyrdin's unlikely coalition of technocrats, Communists and tycoons. That new administration plans to revive price controls and other Soviet-era economic mechanisms that may well smother what's left of the county's infant entrepreneurship...
...churning out cars once again. But after that rush subsides, the world's largest carmaker will face the same problems it had before: declining market share, bloated payrolls and a bitter, distrustful union that will fight changes every step of the way. The company's future certainly looks bleak to investors: As details of the settlement emerged Wednesday morning, GM stock slipped...