Word: bleakness
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...slumping on markets everywhere, however, the price of crude has dropped from $40 per bbl. to $28 per bbl. on the unregulated spot market. As a result, the economic outlook for the 90 million inhabitants of Nigeria, black Africa's wealthiest and most populous nation, has suddenly turned bleak...
Such views cry out for refutation in the novel. But after Hitler's Sturm und Drang, his captors and critics remain mute. In effect, Steiner allows A.H. the last word, and ends on a note of bleak ambiguity: the noisy arrival of the first helicopters from the waiting world beyond the jungle. Portage largely avoids both the satisfactions of the traditional novel and the horrifying details of Holocaust literature. Instead, Steiner has taken as his model the political imaginings of an Orwell or Koestler, and although he has not reached their challenging heights, he has produced a philosophic fantasy...
Despite the bleak prospects for actual field triumphs, Smith expressed confidence that "the experience the team will get playing against the English teams will be very valuable...
Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy last night presented the City Council with a "bleak" preliminary summary of the effects of the second year of Proposition 21/2 mandated cuts on city services, warning that because of additional increases in fixed costs, the overall outlook for fiscal 1983 is "even worse" than "the already decimated budgets would indicate...
...bleak as this picture appears here, it is even worse in that I must reduce these already decimated budgets" by an 21 requirement because of higher fixed costs. Healy stated in his letter to the council...