Word: bleakly
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...much commercial energy as nine Mexicans, 16 Chinese or 1,072 Nepalese. More than 90% of the total manufacturing capacity is located in wealthy developed countries, which increasingly block imports of industrial products from the poor nations. The explosion of oil prices has pushed the needy countries into a bleak house of poverty. The combined debt of the Third World has grown from $70 billion at the end of 1970 to $300 billion today...
...American flag never comes down at 395 Concord Ave. in Belmont. Illuminated at night and resilient through foul weather, the Stars and Stripes provides the only glint of color near the bleak rectangle of red bricks. This is a decidedly no-nonsense building, surrounded by an equally no-nonsense post office and public library. No doubt about it, there is work to be done at the national headquarters of the John Birch Society, 12 minutes from Harvard Square...
...closing of Dodge Main came a half-year ahead of the schedule announced last May by the Chrysler Corp., hastened by disastrously low auto sales throughout the summer and fall. But like the majority of the Dodge Main workers turned loose into the bleak Michigan winter, Wanda is not too hard-pressed financially. Under a company/union agreement, workers with the greatest seniority will have first dibs on jobs elsewhere. (Many may go to the Jefferson Avenue assembly plant, a nearby facility that will produce Chrysler's new front-wheel-drive small cars for next fall.) Wanda has worked...
Erks' territory is also a modern land scape of bleak mining towns, rundown homesteads and rural junkyards. Keeble resonantly plays the present against the past, especially in descriptions of Erks' dangerous drive over the mountains and across deserts. There are intensely perceived set pieces: a dog battling a possum; a woman reassembling a carburetor with Zen-like grace; a Snopesian funeral in a field littered with rusty tractor parts and dominated by the sight and smell of a huge pig roasting on a spit...
...diplomats, however, also admit that there is little if any likelihood that sanctions would lead to freedom for the hostages. Meeting with 80 Congressmen at the White House last week, President Carter painted a bleak picture of prospects for their speedy release. The main problem, he said, was that "there's nobody there with whom we can get in touch." He questioned Khomeini's ability to control the "international terrorists or the kidnapers who are holding our hostages." Echoing that view, one senior State Department official told reporters that "these terrorists are swimming in a sea of support...