Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel is considerably better than that bleak forecast promises. Certain scenes are vivid and memorable; a zeppelin raid over London achieves an eerie, horrifying beauty. And as the brothers' paths diverge in the 1920s, Deighton skillfully displays the tangled politics and passions that were leading Germany toward another disaster...
...fell 47 points on Thursday, when the trade figures were released, then recovered a bit on Friday to close at 1867.04, up 100.30 for the week. Economists were encouraged that the record deficit did not send the stock market into a free fall; they remembered well that a less bleak trade report and a drop in the dollar helped trigger the Black Monday crash. The reason for the milder market reaction this time was that investors were no longer afraid that the Administration and the Federal Reserve will try to defend the dollar with higher interest rates...
That was the dream that enabled him to survive the bleak and penniless early years in Paris, the dream that the chaos of manuscripts he had piled up in his grimy little hotel room -- all the retyped drafts and new inserts and scribbled revisions -- really was a novel and would someday make him famous. A short and rather pudgy youth with froggy eyes, Jimmy had worked on this book about his Harlem boyhood for five or six years back in the U.S. But he had run through a publisher's advance without getting the novel finished. He had worked...
...island. American enrollment at Grenada's medical school is on the rise after students were evacuated from the island in 1983. But the T-shirt industry, which flourished with brisk sales to U.S. service members, has waned since their departure in 1985. The prospect of increased tourism appears bleak. Grenada's twelve hotels remain half empty during peak season. Cruise ships make regular stops, but the mad dashes of passengers through gift shops are hardly a permanent boon to the economy. Vendors hawking spices and tropical shirts comb the beaches for stray tourists...
...Philippines from $471.8 million in 1987 to $267.3 million. Egypt and Israel alone account for 40% of all U.S. foreign aid, while the Philippines -- site of the two largest U.S. military bases on foreign soil -- this year received only 3.5%. Says a State Department official: "The picture is totally bleak...