Word: bleak
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...first, Murphy’s chances of bringing Armstrong to Harvard were bleak. Armstrong was looking to continue in the discus closer to home...
Needless to say, the Lions’ prospects for halting the Crimson attack are bleak...
...also a reminder of what the house no longer is. When Gianni was alive, the company's sales were healthy and an IPO was in the works. Now the firm is looking for outside investors, and financiers who have seen the books tell Time the numbers are bleak. Part of the reason for Versace's troubled fortunes can be seen in the last room of the show. Dresses by Versace's current designer, Gianni's sister Donatella, show that while she's done an admirable job of keeping the family name in the spotlight - her plunging palm-leaf dress made...
...absurd 1 a.m. room-party curfews and alcohol restrictions, and then wonders why people flock to the finals clubs. Harvard’s social scene is a nonentity compared to that of almost any other school in the country. For first-year students, the social scene is often particularly bleak. It was quite refreshing to read about a group of students truly disfruiting Harvard’s weekend offerings. Furthermore, the actions of the students profiled in the article were in no way dangerous or abnormal for people of their age; in fact, they showed far more restraint and responsibility...
...opinions on them, unburdened by preconceived dogma or diatribe. Their failure to do so is a lazy intellectual cop-out. Moreover, without the emergence of individuals from colleges like Harvard who are prepared to question publicly the wisdom of the ruling elites, the next few decades look extremely bleak for both of the parties in Washington. Student activism, for the sake of both the parties and the students involved, must come to involve active policy debates as well as vigorous phone banking...