Word: bleak
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...recent weeks Chinese officials have suggested that the immediate picture for the country could be bleak. "In this coming period, we will starkly confront the effects of the sustained deepening of the international financial crisis and pressure as global economic growth clearly slows," Chinese President Hu Jintao acknowledged last month...
...current financial crisis. The most recent estimates put the damage at around $8 billion dollars, while the New York Times has warned that substantially more might be lost from harder-to-assess investments, some of which have not been revalued since Wall Street’s crash. Such a bleak financial picture has caused talk of tightened budgets, not spending sprees...
...fair, the team’s attitude is a winning one—no one can deny the power of being optimistic in bleak situations. However, the idea that last year’s streak isn’t on anyone’s mind is somewhat more troubling...
...Scrabble was conceived during the Great Depression by an unemployed New York architect named Alfred Mosher Butts, who figured Americans could use a bit of distraction during the bleak economic times. After determining what he believed were the most enduring games in history - board games, numbers games like dice or cards and letter games like crossword puzzles - he combined all three. He then chose the frequency and the distribution of the tiles by counting letters on the pages of the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and The Saturday Evening Post. For more than a decade he tweaked...
...This bleak outlook could get even worse, at least in the short term, if GM, Ford or Chrysler went bust. That's because of a domino effect that would probably result in the subsequent failures of parts suppliers that also sell to factories operated by Toyota, Honda and Nissan in the U.S. Vehicles built on American soil accounted for 63% of Japan's total U.S. sales in 2007, according to the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. A sudden parts shortage could force companies to shut down some of those assembly lines, generating major losses...