Word: despairingly
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...field during three years in Vietnam, agrees. "Newsmen had direct access," he says, "unlike what is happening now. You walked with a platoon or a company and covered things on the ground, not from headquarters." That kind of reporting gives the most accurate perspective on the drama and despair of war. It is surpassed only by the much more satisfying job of reporting the peaceful resolution of any conflict...
...profitable share of the market, and the public sector gets what's left. The problem with this particular lemon is that it tends to sour us on the possibility of real reform. Even those who crave a national program covering everyone are wont to throw up their hands in despair: Nothing works! It's so complex! Maybe in 100 years...
...talk business, do interviews and check out the street action. Their old neighborhood in East Los Angeles is impassable. "We had a strong sense of community," says Perez. "But with all the drugs and gangs, the neighborhood is turning into a battlefield." The Neighborhood, playing off images of despair against cameos of humble valor, is part front-line report and part benediction. "We're really starting over," Hidalgo says, and it sounds like they have found their way. In The Neighborhood, they've come up with a fresh direction and, with it, their finest hour...
...this year's strongest surprise showings, little-known Republican challenger Christine Todd Whitman almost unseated Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) on a wave of anti-tax hysteria, fueled by the unpopularity of Democratic Governor James Florio. Whitman's strong showing is obviously pleasing to Republicans, who despair of unseating congressional incumbents and their powerful fundraising machines...
Didn't you also feel despair when you were growing up in a poverty-stricken South African township...