Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running an incredible experiment with these deficits." Conservative Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau for Economic Research, observed, "The Administration has put itself in an impossible position." Even Republican Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant and sometime adviser to Reagan, admitted that the outlook was "extraordinarily bleak...
When the end came, the feelings in the Philadelphia Bulletin's fourth-floor newsroom, like those at the bedside of a dying family member, did not include surprise. The 134-year-old afternoon daily, once the nation's largest, had been living with the bleak diagnosis for more than a year. In December, its owners, the Charter Company of Jacksonville, finally put it up for sale. Last week, with no takers to be found, and awash in red ink, the Bulletin became another logo in the graveyard of big-city newspapers. Said Charter Communications President J.P. Smith...
...citizens assembled before the Capitol on that bleak and windswept Inauguration Day of 1933, and to millions more clustered around their radios, Roosevelt offered not a series of remedies but a new spirit of assurance. It was this spirit that inspired him to seize a phrase from Henry David Thoreau ("Nothing is so much to be feared as fear") for his famous declaration that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." There had been three years of Government dithering since the Crash, and a new course was to be set. Said Roosevelt: "This nation asks for action...
...squad. And his worst fears were confirmed in the season's first important contest. After victories over Bates and Bowdoin, Amherst rolled into town in mid-October and rolled over the Crimson, in a game that must have made the prospects for the upcoming Ivy campaign look bleak. "While it may be long before Harvard men forget the game last Saturday, it will be better if we face only the future and seek only to master the lessons taught us by the game," he wrote, and then added, perhaps a tad dramatically, "above all we must not give up hope...
...dean, a "hungry observer," describes the bleak utilitarianism and pinched daily life in the old Eastern European capital. Earthquake damage is crudely patched if repaired at all; the public crematorium is a factory where the dead are reduced unceremoniously to convenient size; his wife's childhood home, once a center of culture and comfort, is only a notch above a slum tenement: "Radiators turned cold after breakfast. The faucets went dry at 8 a.m. and did not run again until evening. The bathtub had no stopper. You flushed the toilet with buckets of water...