Word: despairingly
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...Payoff Zero. Meanwhile, the boomer spirit has given way to despair. Near Anchorage, construction of the new Forum Hotel has halted. At the Anchorage airport, the Red Dodge Aviation Co. has abandoned its partially finished $2,000,000 freight terminal and has filed for reorganization under the bankruptcy law. Interior Airlines has also gone to court to stave off creditors. Alaska Airlines is in dire financial straits, as are several construction companies. Many corporations have overextended themselves. Bankers have begun to dry up financial pipelines that were once easily accessible to entrepreneurs. The Alaskan unemployment rate is 13.8%. The state...
...since they were badly mauled last September by the Jordanian army. King Hussein seems determined to prove that he has the once-ungovernable commandos completely under control; last week his government hanged a guerrilla for committing sabotage at a phosphate plant outside Amman. Plagued by disunity and close to despair, the fedayeen might have launched last week's attacks, as Beirut's Daily Star observed, to prove that they "may be down but they...
...fellow officers prepare for their capture by burying their documents and insignia to conceal their high rank, Samsonov at first resists. Finally, apathetically, he allows one of his comrades to strip him of his own insignia. Suddenly he feels unencumbered and free?the freedom that rises out of total despair. Now he is anxious only to rid himself of his entourage and especially his orderly, Kupchik, who sticks close to him carrying the saddle blanket that belonged to the commander's abandoned horse...
...these two encouraged, goaded and championed their children to high achievement is history. Rose was no stricter with her young than she was with herself. The secrets of her success were morning mass, diligent diet, a two-mile walk daily, frequent catnaps and "movement and action" as antidotes to despair. "How you cope is the important thing, not the events themselves," she says. Splendor aplenty had always accompanied her father's dockside determination, and Rose's fondness for French couture, parties and travel is also important: she sees herself as a Christian, not a martyr...
...city. Previously active students complained of the lack of issues and purpose behind yesterday's demonstration and minimized the ultimate effect the slayings will have on the country. One architecture student in Cuernavaca said that the students' political situation was so impossible that violence can only lead to more despair. Just as revolution is undesirable for Mexico while it rapidly progresses towards development, with an increasingly better economic situation, change through overt political channels in this virtually one-party country is impossible, he said...