Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Administration officials kept delivering bleak predictions. Appearing before a Senate subcommittee, Secretary of State George Shultz explicitly tied the fate of El Salvador to the rest of the isthmus, including Mexico, "with which we have a long border." The testimony of the usually cautious Shultz surprised reporters and Congressmen alike and served as perhaps the best evidence of the Administration's tougher stance. Nestor D. Sanchez, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary, told House members that the Salvadoran army might run out of ammunition in 30 days. William Schneider Jr., Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, confirmed the alarming...
...these firms will find themselves in a most difficult position in the years ahead when less and less brain-power is available because nobody was there to develop it. Such actions as Congress' proposed bill and the Ed School's retraining program are welcome efforts in an otherwise bleak situation, but they represent only a beginning. Major strides in filling high school staffs with competent math and science teachers will only occur when these teaches receive higher salaries. As long as they are paid paltry amounts for this important task young and would-be teachers alike will continue to abandon...
...reality, Arafat, 53, and his colleagues had small reason to rejoice. Palestinian fortunes have not looked so bleak since Arafat took control of the shattered and dispirited organization following the 1967 Middle East war. The delegates, representing 4 million Palestinians dispersed among some 90 countries around the world, had come to make a number of fateful choices. Foremost among them was how to deal with President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace plan. The proposal calls for self-government, though not statehood, for the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in association with Jordan...
...loss yesterday, however, would have all but extinguished any Crimson playoff hopes, and after the game's first 20 minutes, things looked bleak for the icewomen. The Polar Bears went on top first, opening the day's scoring just 2.24 into the match. Bowdoin's Jennifer Birmingham took the puck from teammate Anni Utryhoven on the play and then sent a quick backhand past Harvard goalie Cheryl Tate to give the Polar Bears their early lead...
...political prisoners, it says, remained detained in "reeducation camps" without ever having been brought to trial. Citizens cannot travel, or even change residences, without permission. The press practices rigid self-censorship. There is no freedom of assembly. The forecast for future political rights in Viet Nam? Concludes the report: "Bleak...