Word: bleakness
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...deepening economic recession and a high failure rate for start-ups, more and more out-of-work Americans are striking out on their own. To be sure, starting a business is not a realistic option for most of the 9 million jobless workers in the U.S. But in the bleak employment market, entrepreneurship is suddenly looking attractive to an increasing number of people who have the necessary skills, drive and ideas -- in short, everything...
...bleak words did not go over well among business leaders. Ed Yardeni, a New York City economist, immediately sent out a fax to his clients: "Will someone please remind this guy that he is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors! Send him some antidepressants. Consumers are frightened enough without hearing all this depressing talk from Mr. Greenspan." Urged Yardeni: "Let's have a full-point cut in the discount rate today!" The message evidently got through. Late in the week Greenspan turned Santa Claus. He lowered the discount rate, which is what banks are charged for borrowing money...
Nothing causes more alarm for Russians than the prospect of a bleak winter without food. Famine has recurred with frightening regularity during seven decades of communist rule. "Hunger did not start with perestroika," explains Dmitri Pushkar, a deputy on the Yaroslavl regional council, who monitors food supplies in the countryside. "It began with the coming of Soviet power." Vadim, a local taxi driver, puts it more bluntly: "I remember the postwar famine of 1947, when we had nothing to eat but nettles and goose feet. So what else...
Robinson's future seemed bleak for some time, as the Rams have lost nine straight games to match a team record that has lasted 50 years...
...thing we could do -- and my captors may be surprised to learn this -- was talk to each other." Anderson explained that he had learned sign language in high school, a one-handed alphabet that he taught the other captives, improvising new signs for those he had forgotten. On this bleak day, Anderson was relaying silent messages to Sutherland, who would pass them on to Keenan, and so forth. Then calamity struck. "I took off my glasses and dropped them and broke them," he said. "My eyes are very bad. Couldn't see." End of silent, cell- to-cell dialogue...