Word: bleakness
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...Unless Bush changes his present direction," Lockman said, "the decade of the 90s will be extremely bleak for all of us. There is a certain price that all of us will have to pay for this--and we're only at the start...
...security-related taboos and count on the honor and patriotism of journalists -- reinforced by the military's legitimate accreditation powers -- to ensure compliance. At week's end Williams promised instead to offer still more proposals this week, only a few days before they may begin to have real, and bleak, meaning...
...Quincunx by Charles Palliser. Roughly half a million words long, this extravagant narrative is a faithful re-creation of the 19th century British novel -- lots of them, including Bleak House, Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. Miraculously, this bald-faced imitation works wonders. The author makes the distant world of Victorian fiction, with its careful plotting and moral punctiliousness, as gripping as tomorrow's whodunit...
...moderate, potentially severe recession on our hands," said Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers. "The economy is showing signs of caving in, almost falling off a cliff, as so often is the case once a full-fledged recession begins." If the conditions seem particularly bleak, he noted, "that is because we are in the heart of the slide...
...proclaims her two years on the job "utterly unique." She has avoided plunging into the President's business and generating the kind of hostility stirred up by Eleanor Roosevelt. Yet she heard the human cries and carried the banner for compassion when the Administration's number crunchers studied the bleak budget ledgers and looked the other...