Word: bleakness
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...exactly one year since his triumphant ascent to the Speaker's chair, Gingrich stood before his troops at a private session in the Cannon caucus room. He had told them then that there would come a dark hour, when the fight would grow hard, the polls pitiless, the prospects bleak. And he had promised he would be right at their side, that once they had won the war, all the pain would be forgotten...
...talks are about, in large part, is poverty and the distortions it visits on the human spirit. You'll never find investment bankers bickering on Rolonda, or the host of Gabrielle recommending therapy to sobbing professors. With few exceptions the guests are drawn from trailer parks and tenements, from bleak streets and narrow, crowded rooms. Listen long enough, and you hear references to unpaid bills, to welfare, to 12-hour workdays and double shifts. And this is the real shame of the talks: that they take lives bent out of shape by poverty and hold them up as entertaining exhibits...
Even before the bleak Christmas outlook, the U.S. retailing industry was suffering through a traumatic restructuring brought on by too few shoppers and too many stores. Retailers have nearly doubled their selling space since 1985, bringing it to a ratio of 19 sq. ft. for every man, woman and child in the U.S. "There will be closed and empty stores in almost every single mall in the country," says retail analyst Walter Loeb. "Some customers are going to feel like they're shopping in ghost towns...
...Holsteins are trapped in their profession, which is declining anyway, and someday a brilliant geneticist will engineer an enzyme that can be thrown into a tank of silage to produce a nonfat miracle milk that makes people younger, and the Holstein breed will face a bleak future, perhaps as a game animal for the slower hunter. A sad fate for a virtuous creature who lets down her milk twice a day and never is a problem to anybody...
...NEVER HEARD OF SIMPSON BEFORE the murders. During the trial, the evidence made things look bleak for him, but now I have to wonder, Does money make all the difference? AMPARO GRANADA Barcelona...