Word: bleakness
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...explosive growth extended the bleak stretches of treeless housing tracts, especially inland. It intensified the traditional local conflict between a laid-back resort atmosphere and a stressful development. It imposed urban ills like crime and overcrowded jails. But at the same time it threw open the doors of opportunity, creating a fluid new nonpartisan politics. And, in the absence of blue-blood dynasties like those in Boston or San Francisco, it engendered an unapologetic admiration for new money...
...last of the megadeals, the ranks of their troops were shrinking drastically in the last years of the '80s. Merrill Lynch, which lost $213 million in 1989, last month announced plans to let 3,000 of its 41,000 employees go by the end of this year. The bleak job outlook deters business-school students who a few years ago might have eagerly aspired to investment-banking jobs. "A lot of people are shying away from Wall Street because the jobs are not there," says Mike Russell, 25, editor of the Harvard Business School newspaper. "There...
Dating after the Cold War: The prospects look bleak for a return to the golden biblical times of dating. As the probability of nuclear war declines, the carpe diem argument that brought many couples together will no longer work as well. Besides, who would want to go on a date when the world is changing...
...Captain Tim Kierstead was easily controlling Nick Leary, 7-3, when he fell into a head-lock, and also got pinned in the second period. Harvard was losing for the first time in the match. Things looked bleak...
...Dickensian overtones are impossible to ignore. John's situation seems a direct conflation of Great Expectations and Bleak House: he has the hope that his fortunes may improve and the knowledge that, if he survives, he may spend the rest of his days in fruitless litigation. But his adventures call to mind a host of other Victorian novels as well. He is sent briefly to a Yorkshire school and enters the harsh world of Nicholas Nickleby; he overhears a former governess tell her life story, and the events and diction take on the coloration of Jane Eyre...