Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stint in New York, Tuchman transferred to the organization's Tokyo branch, where she helped prepare an economic handbook of the Pacific. "The Japanese militarist/fascist movement was getting very hot and IPR wanted to encourage the liberal Japanese who were still holding on," the historian recalls. The situation looked bleak, however, and in 1935. Tuchman came home--via the trans-Siberian rail-road...
Thus, no matter who took the oath of office on the Capitol steps in January 1981, the prospects were bleak for progress in either strategic or intermediate-range arms control. But Reagan had an opportunity to turn the situation around. Americans, allies and Soviet leaders alike were fed up with the dithering of Carter and were ready for some old-fashioned conservatism, tempered by common sense and self-confidence. Instead, Reagan made a bad situation worse with his rhetoric suggesting implacable hostility to the Soviet Union and his deep mistrust of the very idea of arms control...
...such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that you can do good or do bad-but everybody dies...
...Bleak as these figures are, the IRS estimates may be too conservative. Peter M. Gutmann, an economics professor at the City University of New York, made an extended analysis of the "underground economy" in 1977 and estimated that undeclared income the previous year had totaled $176 billion, as compared with the IRS figure of around $100 billion. In later studies, Gutmann substantially increased his estimates of unreported income, to $420 billion...
...letup on either front. Experts have estimated that every year from now on at least 1 million people, and perhaps as many as 2 million, will be similarly displaced. Despite the attention and publicity given older workers laid off by declining industries, their options remain almost unrelievedly bleak...