Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAWHILL: We need a major R. and D. effort to develop new natural gas supplies from conventional as well as nonconventional sources like coal-bed methane and tidal sands. The future for nuclear energy now looks bleak, and I don't think we will return to a coal-based economy. We are going to have to shift to a new base of energy technologies, such as solar energy, nonconventional gas and perhaps shale oil or liquefied coal...
...other heat, Northeastern, another crew with great expectations, entered the bleak house with a non-qualifying fourth place...
...Sarge, Ronnie and Jerry cluttering the television screens and the front pages have barely begun to fade. And here they are, by any measure a full year too soon, about to assault us once again. So brace yourself for those film clips of frigid handshakes at the gates of bleak factories, with candidates snorting white steam from mouths and nostrils, of flinty, numb voters nodding vacantly at vacant campaign promises; of parka-encased reporters up to their knees in snow, watching and waiting in vain for a phrase or a glance that will rise above the level of the completely...
...outlook seems bleak enough as matters stand now. Though most U.S. gasoline stations still have enough fuel on hand to meet the demands, oil company deliveries are rapidly being pared back to stretch dwindling inventories. Exxon's supplies are becoming so tight that last week the company had to impose an $8 limit on gas purchases at its stations along the heavily traveled New Jersey Turnpike. Exxon also said it would not renew crude-oil supply contracts with other companies, a step that is going to make it harder for the firms that have been cut off to meet...
When asked about the future of Catholic women's colleges, Switzer said they have as good an opportunity for life in the future as any other women's colleges. The critical issues in women's colleges today are economic, she added, "financially, the fate of women's colleges seems bleak...