Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York State attorney general, who charges that the A.M.A. has interfered with the freedom of medical practice. Defending itself now costs the association three-quarters of a million dollars a year in legal fees. Were the A.M.A. to lose the lawsuits, the association could go bankrupt. A bleak prognosis indeed...
...presidential panel finds the global outlook extremely bleak...
...wealthy industrialized nations, the study predicts adequate supplies of oil and other energy sources through 1990, but even before then the poor nations will experience serious shortages, with the outlook particularly bleak for the one-quarter of humanity dependent primarily on wood for fuel. Already the relentless quest for firewood in places like Africa's Sahel and the foothills of the Himalaya-to say nothing of such commercial exploitation as the denuding of the Amazon rain forest -has meant the annual loss of enough trees to forest half the state of California. One side effect: as the trees...
Europeans take a bleak new view of their chief ally
Towering, superbly equipped research institutes contrast with hospitals that are bleak, antiquated and poorly staffed. Some Soviet physicians are equal to the best in the West in such fields as orthopedics and ophthalmology; yet doctors still use such primitive therapies as mustard plasters and cupping and even leeches. Treatment is administered free and drugs are inexpensive, yet patients often must bribe doctors and nurses for medication, operations, even to have linen changed and bedpans emptied...