Word: bleak
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...odds looked bleak, as Harvard was stuck in a five game losing streak while the Big Green had won 12 in a row coming into the weekend...
...nobody does. The fact that on most days you can barely walk two feet in the yard without running into some kind of protest is proof enough that the Harvard student body as a whole is hardly apathetic. If they can't drum up support here, prospects are looking bleak for the talk-show circuit...
...students. These can be excellent, unless you haven't cracked the binding on your overpriced books from the Coop. Shocking as it might seem, students are occasionally unprepared for class, choosing one more slice at Tommy's House of Pizza rather than reading those last hundred pages of Bleak House...
...things may not be as bleak as they seem. Lately demographers have come to the conclusion that the population locomotive--while still cannonballing ahead--may be chugging toward a stop. In country after country, birthrates are easing, and the population growth rate is falling...
...study of the universe as a whole, and there is no cosmological question about which we have more to learn than the riddle of where it's all ultimately headed. But we have glimpsed at least a few clues to cosmic destiny, some of them hopeful and others bleak...