Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anti-gay, sexist, and generally misanthropic, these comments portray a pretty bleak world-view. "Some days you're the bug," reads one of the more articulate enunciation. "Other days you're the windshield...
This confusion and frustration, many say, has been a part of graduate student life for a long time. But in her three years on the job, Urdang-Brown says, the situation has never been this bleak. "It seems unnecessary," she says. "I'm sure there's a better way to do that. The one word that keeps popping up is preregistration...
Brianna was suffering from cystic fibrosis, the most common inherited disorder among whites and a disease that afflicts 25,000 Americans, killing more than 500 every year. Just 10 years ago, the prospects for a girl her age were as bleak as they were inevitable. As the combination of chronic infections, clogged airways and digestive problems took their toll, she could not have expected to outlive her teens. But now, says Ramsey, "Brianna has an excellent chance of living into adulthood." In fact, although Ramsey and other clinicians are reluctant to raise false hopes, Brianna and thousands of other babies...
...when polls show that perennial noncandidate Mario M. Cuomo, the besieged governor of New York who can do little more than deliver a good speech, still garners more votes than any of the declared candidates, prospects look bleak for the Democrats...
...response to a question about whether or notthe class could be expanded, the student said,Wilson told the class that the possibility was"bleak...