Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farming beginning in the 17th century. This rich earth is gradually falling into the hands of interlocking conglomerates, and the play implies that the Japanese may eventually own it. Against this backdrop Churchill fashions a kind of Under Milk Wood as it might have been seen through the bleak, baleful eyes of Thomas Hardy...
...there is more to Lucas' bleak expression than weariness or worry. There is a fundamental, existential malaise, and as he describes it, the telling of the Star Wars saga has taken a terrible toll on him. "The sacrifice I've made for Star Wars may have been greater than I wanted," he says. "After Graffiti, Star Wars could have gone in the toilet and it wouldn't have mattered financially. It's an interesting choice I made, and now I'm burned out. In fact, I was burned out a couple of years...
Swedish stockbrokers were as gloomy last week as characters in a bleak Ingmar Bergman movie. The Stockholm stock exchange was still and silent, idled temporarily by a total breakdown in an electronic system for registering trades. Millions of transactions being processed at the time of the crash were suddenly in limbo. Said Broker Sven Hagströmer: "It's a scandal. You can't get your money, and you can't get your stocks." Nothing so disastrous had happened to the exchange since it shut down during a financial panic in 1932 after Match King Ivar Kreuger...
...Mondale also said that the "landscape of American education is not totally bleak", citing Harvard as an example. "If you are looking for an example of the finest education in the world, you will find it here," he said...
...charged than Reagan's carefully modulated address. Calling the President's policies "a formula for failure," Dodd accused him of ignoring the fundamental factors that led to instability in the region. "If Central America were not racked with poverty, there would be no revolution," Dodd argued. He painted a bleak picture of the Salvadoran government, charging that its land-reform program had long been "abandoned" and that its repressive police tactics still terrorized the populace. "I have been to that country, and I know about the morticians who travel the streets each morning to collect the bodies of those summarily...