Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bleak academic market and the aftereffects of the recession have left many graduate students--some after enduring more than a decade of graduate school--jobless, bitter and disappointed...
Nationwide, the numbers are bleak...
...classmate Whiz (Marilyn Whisman [Monsour]'45-'44) organized a Radcliffe Entertainment Unit,to bring cheer to men in bleak barracks. In aBoston club for seamen, the stage lacking steps,we ran down an aisle and jumped three feet to getaboard, our inebriated audience meanwhile snoringloudly through the show...
...market for new academics is bleak, and many students are understandablyreluctant to give up secure and subsidizedemployment, housing and research opportunities,Wolff said...
...peacekeeping missions -- add to familial stress. The military drawdown, from 2.2 million troops in 1987 to 1.5 million in 1997, compounds the problem. Soldiers and sailors who once dreamed of a secure, 20-year career and a handsome pension now find themselves facing a truncated career, no pension and bleak employment prospects in the civilian world. "Everybody is wondering about what their own careers and their own finances will be, and of course, financial issues are major contributors to family violence," McGinn says. "There's a lot of tension." Outside experts point to other factors. Compared with civilian society...