Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unemployment picture is still bleak, however, and congressional leaders of both parties remain eager to pass an emergency jobs and relief bill. After two weeks of secret talks, the White House last week worked out a tentative agreement with House Democrats on a short-term plan to speed up public works projects and provide aid to those hardest hit by the recession. There will, no doubt, still be bitter battles ahead over more ambitious proposals for long-term jobs programs and the budget. But the compromise was an important symbolic sign of bipartisan cooperation...
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Luckily, Harvard wrestling has a chance to come out of its tailspin. The future is not too bleak; the team is too good to fold. The formula is simple...
...that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time, questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend...
...African and Angolan representatives are expected to meet soon in the Cape Verde Islands to discuss not only the Cuban troop withdrawal, but South Africa's frequent raids into Angolan territory in search of SWAPO rebels. Whether the talks will contribute to a settlement is another matter. The bleak assessment from General Constand Viljoen, commander of the 20,000 South African troops fighting against SWAPO in Namibia, is that his occupying forces will not be withdrawn from the territory this year...