Word: bleakness
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...situation does not look so bleak. The Hubble blunder is a serious setback, but NASA engineers have found ways to computer-enhance the telescope's images so that they are not as blurry as the first ones received. More important, in the 12 years it took to develop and launch the Hubble, the technology of ground-based telescopes has rapidly improved. In fact, techniques under development could enable earthbound telescopes to do many things the Hubble was supposed...
...that was a false view, even before events in the Persian Gulf suddenly made America very relevant indeed. The situation is not as simple as the declinists claim, our fate surely not that bleak. The 21st could and should be -- "to a significant degree" -- a Second American Century...
...Harvard, where a major fundraising campaignis still in the offing, administrators arecontemplating current deficits, looking at otherschools and wondering how they, too, will weatherthe immediate impact of a bleak economic climate...
This minimalist approach succeeded last year in Hill's bleak staging of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, because it reflected the barrenness of Beckett's verbal landscape. But in a show about the foibles of human emotion and the intricacies of deception, more natural and sympathetic direction is required. The audience may laugh at the characters in Betrayal, but Hill ensures that we will never empathize...
...Facing a bleak national economy and projected fundraising delays, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) must cut almost $3 million from this year's budget, Acting Dean Henry Rosovsky announced yesterday...