Word: bleakness
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...export-related jobs. Thus, while the U.S. and other industrialized countries are emerging from the recession, the U.S. export sector is not likely to achieve its previous high levels so long as growth prospects for the most dynamic source of new demand for U.S. goods, the Third World, remain bleak. Lower interest rates are essential if Third World growth is to be resumed. The sustainability of our own economic recovery depends...
...effect of this looniness is to drive you to the fallout shelter. The message is bleak--there is no hope for society, it is hopelessly insane, skewed. The medium is numbing--the director, Alex Cox, has spliced together a series of disjointed scenes into a rambling stream-of-consciousness denunciation of American society. The utter weirdness of society, the hopelessness of it all is insistently driven home to us in scene after scene, whether we're watching Otto shovel down his dinner from a can marked simply "Food," or watching Otto's punk friend Duke die after a shoot...
...picture grew bleak as he faced trouble adjusting to college life. Within a year he had been placed on disciplinary warning and asked to take a year...
...These bleak tenure possibilities provoked much of the tension junior faculty members report. Assistant professors are usually hired for five years; if they get promoted to associate, they get another three years or so. Then it's up or out--usually out. "The utter lack of long-term prospects is disappointing, and I think it's bad for morale," says one assistant professor contacted last month in a brief Crimson survey of junior faculty sentiment...
...searching look at the reform and concluded politely that it had had "mixed results." Among other things, the audit claimed that many of the 317 major farm cooperatives created under Phase 1 are "not financially viable." The future of those plantations, which produce mainly coffee, cotton and sugar, seems "bleak," said the report, without additional government assistance. As of September 1983, the cooperatives owed a total of $400 million. "If this process continues," the report added, "the debt could total about $2 billion by the year...