Word: bleakfully
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...issues over their control and use, and the pension investment strategies that the bankers and brokers have used. The main strength of the book is its detailed documentation of economic trends, quoting labor, Congressional and industrial leaders and analysts to add color to what could have been a very bleak subject.Even if Rifkin and Barber's next book, on the economic significance of the evangelical movement in the U.S., denotes a return to radical faddism, The North Will Rise Again will stand...
About the dollar, however, the mood of the meeting was bleak. Although some experts held that the convergence of growth rates and declining trade surpluses in the nations that have them would help calm currency fluctuations and boost the buck, others reiterated that global money markets are no longer behaving rationally enough to be quieted down easily. Otmar Emminger, president of the West German Bundesbank, confessed that he had "given up hope that the markets would react to logic." Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey found the entire world monetary system to be "in disarray...
Like Badlands, Director Terrence Malick's remarkable first film, his new work is a bleak and unstinting attack on America's materialistic culture. But Malick is an artist, not a polemicist; his scabrous ideas are expressed in the elegiac terms of a fable. In Days of Heaven he tells of a migrant worker, Bill (Richard Gere), who travels from Chicago with his lover Abby (Brooke Adams) and his kid sister Linda (Linda Manz) to harvest wheat for an aristocratic Texas farmer (Playwright Sam Shepard). Tired of "nosing around like a pig" and infuriated by his employer...
Although the union has won this round, service workers at Harvard's teaching hospitals remain unorganized into unions, and the prospect of future union organization looks bleak at best. Shea says Local 880 will concentrate its organizing efforts on non-Harvard local hospitals, such as St. Elizabeth's in Brighton. Chandler, for his part, says he expects other legal decisions in the future to corroborate Beth Israel's view that hospitals merit special consideration from NLRB because their primary function is non-profit patient care...
...course, lies the point. What Stone was saying in his novel was that a trashy culture, America in the '60s, produced precisely the trashy counterculture it deserved, and also the trashy, unromantic criminal life it might have expected. Even if one could not entirely accept his relentlessly bleak view of contemporary life, there was a certain symbolic weight to Stone's characters, a naturalistic force and detail in his writing that carried the reader along, however glumly. The movie strips most of that texture away in order to concentrate on the action. The result is a succession...