Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exist in a dismal, colorless world run by evil and greed. Suddenly, a streak of orange blazes across the sky. It's a plane, it's superman.... No, it's a bird...
Getting nervous? In the past two weeks, the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen 529 points, a drop of nearly 10% since its August peak, punctuating a dismal third quarter. Investors are hoping--praying might be a better word--that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will decide against the third interest-rate hike of 1999 when the central bank's Open Market Committee meets this week...
...that's pretty much all the news from Random Hearts, a grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal. Ford is a Washington detective named Dutch Van Den Broeck; Scott Thomas is a Congresswoman named Kay Chandler. Both their spouses are killed in a plane crash, and he suspects--his obsessive nature and the habits of his profession driving him on--that they were lovers. She perhaps agrees, but prefers denial and resumption of her re-election campaign...
...team can be a funny thing: a little social system within itself, an organism all its own. Analyzing one's own experiences on them can be even more difficult, for the valleys are more dismal and the mountains more climactic than any individual pursuit...
Fuerloins was Doyle's "colleague" in Physics 125 during the 1997-98 academic year. According to CUE guide evaluations submitted by students in the course, Doyle received a 4.9 CUE guide rating, while Fuerloins received a dismal score...