Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carter's main objective was to launch an effective attack on his opponent. "This election," Carter declared, "is a stark choice between two men, two parties, two sharply different pictures of what America is." Though his portrait of the Democrats was rather fuzzy, he painted a bleak Republican future of despair: "the surrender of our energy future to the merchants of oil, the surrender of our economic future to a bizarre program of massive tax cuts for the rich, service cuts for the poor and massive inflation for everyone...
Concludes Commerce Department Economist Ago Ambre: "The outlook for consumer income in the absence of any big tax cut is pretty bleak...
...halt. The wave of kidnapings and terrorism has frightened away investment. The result: 30% unemployment and runaway inflation. Warns Accountant Hector Figueros of San Salvador: "If there is no economic assistance, the country will collapse." Washington has offered $50 million in financial aid. While admitting that the outlook is bleak, State Department officials profess some heavily guarded optimism. Last week, for example, they were gratified by the junta's promise to set a timetable for "popular and free elections" within 30 days. Observes a Latin America expert: "The government has survived, and that in itself is miraculous...
Ruff, whose combined enterprises will gross $25 million this year, is not the only one to realize the profits of bleak prophecy. An advertisement in Mother Earth News, the North Carolina-based, back-to-the-land bimonthly, pitches $64,000 building lots in Park City, Utah, geared directly to the survivalist market. The properties are touted as "excellent for passive solar home/earth shelter with food-producing greenhouse." Saxon predicts a threefold increase in sales for his survival-book business which grossed $100,000 last year, carrying such titles as Granddad's Wonder Book of Chemistry, Root...
...short-term future is bleak; if the liberals sacrifice principle, they remain powerless. If they stand on principle, they fall on it as well, for Reagan will do his best, which may be pretty good, to dismantle every useful piece of government legislation ever passed. Over the longer haul, there may be slightly more promise for the liberal wing. Should Reagan win, liberals will consolidate; should Carter win, he must pass the presidency on in four years. It seems unlikely liberals will accept Walter Mondale as his successor, tainted as he is by his vigorous pimping for the president...