Word: bleakness
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Such serendipity is not hard to come by once you venture beyond the expressways. Two miles south of the Badlands is a bleak crossroads called Interior (pop. 70), the site of LaVonne Green's seven-table WoodenKnife Drive- Inn. A South Dakota guidebook last year said Europeans recommend the place ) to their friends, especially for the Indian tacos, but Green, whose daughter is married to a Sioux, professes puzzlement at the transatlantic accolade. She is also mysterious about her secret fry-bread recipe, which includes the root vegetable tinpsila. But on only two days in the past ten years...
...urged the mujahedin to forgo further infighting in favor of the "vital work of improving unity and coordination" at a time when the Kabul regime is increasingly assertive on the military and political fronts -- and the guerrillas' drive has faltered. Whatever the fallout, the prospect for future unity is bleak. U.S. analysts fear that once Najibullah is ousted, mujahedin factions will turn on one another in the effort to achieve power...
...asylum seekers who landed in Southeast Asia before governments in the region stopped guaranteeing them refugee status, there was good news: resettlement countries such as the U.S., Canada and Australia agreed to take in 55,000 more escapees. But for those who arrived later, the outlook was bleak. Only the few who can prove that they left to avoid persecution and not just to escape economic privation will be eligible to enter other countries. The rest will be encouraged and perhaps eventually forced to return home. But at the moment, Viet Nam is refusing to take them back...
...Each day at New York City's Montefiore Medical Center, women infected with the AIDS virus ask if they can still have children. Patients are told that chances are greater than 1 in 4 that their child would be born with the virus. The prognosis for these children is bleak, especially since they may be orphaned...
Even faster than that, news of the vote by 40% of Sacramento's electorate spread fresh hope among the opponents of nuclear power all over the U.S. The development countered a bleak mood stirred up among antinukers recently by two Nuclear Regulatory Commission actions. In the first, the NRC issued an operating permit to New York's Shoreham nuclear power plant, though its owner, the Long Island Lighting Co., had agreed to dismantle it. Then the NRC decided to permit a limited go-ahead for the controversial Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant. Thousands of activists demonstrated against the start...