Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia managed to go up by four, 60-56, and when Crimson forward Monroe Trout fouled out moments later, things looked bleak indeed for the Crimson...
...world outside, her policies and her government were being buffeted by bleak statistics and sour skepticism. But in her quietly elegant office at No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a study in controlled serenity nearing the end of another demanding day. Wearing a sleek black and gold-lamé dinner gown she had chosen for an earlier portrait sitting, she talked animatedly with London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo and TIME'S Frank Melville. On economic issues she was the patient teacher, with some pointers for the new occupant of the White House. On world affairs...
...loans, the Nicaraguan economy ended last year completely bankrupt. Because of inflation, higher oil prices and lower aid levels, Nicaragua this year faces a potential $240 million balance of payments deficit. Exports of coffee and cotton may offer a temporary respite, but the future for agricultural production could be bleak; no new coffee bushes have been planted since 1979, and it takes at least three years for the plants to mature...
...hero, played by E.G. Marshall, was once the head of a great bank. He embezzled funds in a desperate move to protect his depositors, was caught out and spent five years in prison. For the past eight years he has paced an upper room in his bleak house, unspoken to by his wife Gunhild (Rosemary Murphy) as he broods over past wounds and dreams an illusory comeback...
With the more conservative cast of the new Congress, prospects for passage of the full revised code are bleak. Yet backers of the sentence-appeal provision remain hopeful. Now that the Supreme Court has removed the double-jeopardy objection to the provision, they believe they have enough support to have it removed from the main bill and passed separately...