Word: bleakness
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...dream may seem simple. But a few years ago it probably would not even have been there. Reed has swallowed his bitterness and now seems willing to admit that as bleak as things look, better days may still follow...
...buoyant career had one bleak period: as deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Cambodia from 1971 to 1974, he helped preside over the collapse of the U.S.-supported government in Phnom Penh. Now, in his Latin America post, Enders foresees similar turmoil. An ardent believer in the domino theory, he envisions much of Central America as nearly ready to topple to leftists...
...running an incredible experiment with these deficits." Conservative Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau for Economic Research, observed, "The Administration has put itself in an impossible position." Even Republican Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant and sometime adviser to Reagan, admitted that the outlook was "extraordinarily bleak...
When the end came, the feelings in the Philadelphia Bulletin's fourth-floor newsroom, like those at the bedside of a dying family member, did not include surprise. The 134-year-old afternoon daily, once the nation's largest, had been living with the bleak diagnosis for more than a year. In December, its owners, the Charter Company of Jacksonville, finally put it up for sale. Last week, with no takers to be found, and awash in red ink, the Bulletin became another logo in the graveyard of big-city newspapers. Said Charter Communications President J.P. Smith...
...citizens assembled before the Capitol on that bleak and windswept Inauguration Day of 1933, and to millions more clustered around their radios, Roosevelt offered not a series of remedies but a new spirit of assurance. It was this spirit that inspired him to seize a phrase from Henry David Thoreau ("Nothing is so much to be feared as fear") for his famous declaration that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." There had been three years of Government dithering since the Crash, and a new course was to be set. Said Roosevelt: "This nation asks for action...