Word: bleaker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lush coffee plantations that cover more than 200,000 hectares in Dak Lak. Vietnam has become the world's second-largest exporter of coffee (behind Brazil) in the past decade, and last year it was the No. 1 exporter of the robusta bean. But there's a bleaker story behind the impressive statistics. After the war years, the communist government embarked on a major resettlement campaign: it banned collective land ownership, declared traditional tribal lands state property available for redistribution and forbade nomadic slash-and-burn farming practices, forcing hill tribes to settle down. Complaints of corruption in doling...
...level of talented players in women's college hockey will be seriously depleted next season due to Olympic defections, which makes the world that much bleaker for Flanagan...
...NCAA considers athlete availability in the selection process, Minnesota's tournament chances look even bleaker. The Gophers' three most notable wins of the season--two against Minnesota-Duluth and one against Harvard--all came during the week of the Four Nations Cup when its opposition was severely shorthanded due to national team commitments...
...That's the worldview of Kitano's crime films, where life is to die for and death is a punch line. Could any view be bleaker?or, in the hands of a master showman, more rudely entertaining? For TV's Beat Takeshi and the movies' Takeshi Kitano are halves of the same protean artist. One does anything for a laugh; the other dares the audience not to laugh at the spectacle of man annihilating himself and his species for the sake of a rusty old word like honor...
...situation turns bleaker in the Middle East and is complicated by acts such as the kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, we here at Harvard must remember that we are not entirely exempt from the demand for peace. Earlier this week, Hillel and the Society of Arab Students held separate demonstrations; Hillel had sought a joint vigil, but discussions came apart over the issue of mourning those Israeli soldiers killed in the conflict. The Society of Arab Students' vigil was marred, however, by the presence of Israel supporters distributing inflammatory fliers. If students thousands of miles...