Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outlook is bleak for the Division III Great Danes of Albany State against three Division I opponents. Albany State is struggling this year at 7-7-1 in dual meets...
...Desk Set. Nora says her mother did the actual typing, while "my father did the pacing up and down" -- roughly the same job division as in childbirth. Henry wrote a charming memoir of the couple's life together, We Thought We Could Do Anything, leaving out most of the bleak parts -- the alcoholism, the bitter fights that made their daughters beg the two to get a divorce, both parents' descent into mental illness. It was enough to make Nora, the eldest of the pair's four daughters, vow to put Hollywood, movies and screenwriting a full continent away from...
...victims' coffins, draped with E.C. flags during a memorial service in Zagreb's cathedral the next evening, were a bleak reminder that peace will not come easily to Yugoslavia after six months of civil war. The federal military was quick to refer to "an unwanted and tragic event," and the Serb- controlled federal government offered requisite apologies. But a shake-up in the top military command solidifying Serb dominance led to fresh worries that the army might not fully support the cease-fire. As the U.N. dispatched observers over the weekend to monitor the fragile peace, the truce appeared...
...deepening economic recession and a high failure rate for start-ups, more and more out-of-work Americans are striking out on their own. To be sure, starting a business is not a realistic option for most of the 9 million jobless workers in the U.S. But in the bleak employment market, entrepreneurship is suddenly looking attractive to an increasing number of people who have the necessary skills, drive and ideas -- in short, everything...
...nominal lead to Paul Tsongas, the former Senator from neighboring Massachusetts, who benefits from his early start and his status as a New Englander. Those advantages may keep this sober, cerebral lawyer at the head of the pack in New Hampshire even though his prospects in later rounds are bleak...