Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already calculating 1989. He got one scraggly hay crop this spring and has some carry-over bales from last year for his 75 Herefords and Black Angus cattle. With careful planning, that can get him into next year. But then without new hay and grain his future looks bleak...
...world' s No. 1 creditor nation goes from strength to strength, while the U. S. shows signs of decline. How Washington and Tokyo handle their emerging partnership will affect the rest of the globe. -- In the wake of a military coup, the future looks bleak for Haitian democracy. -- Why Mexican politics will never be the same again. -- A dangerous missile race in the Middle East...
...heartwarming scene in the coldest of climates. Ora Gologergen, 72, boarded Alaska Airlines' "Friendship One" flight in Nome for the 40-minute trip to Provideniya, U.S.S.R., a bleak town of dilapidated concrete buildings across the Bering Sea. There, with hugs and shouts in Yupik, her native language, she was reunited with her close childhood friend, Uksima Uksima, 73, a Siberian Eskimo. The two are among the thousands of Eskimos separated in 1948 when the cold war dropped an Ice Curtain across the Bering Strait, closing the Alaska-Siberia passage. With this flight, about 25 Eskimos living on the American side...
...company is prepared to weather a downturn, Ford is. The bleak years of 1980 through 1982, when it lost $3.26 billion, taught the company how devastating a recession can be. Philip Caldwell, Ford's chairman at the time, was forced to cut costs drastically and boost productivity. When Petersen took over as chairman in 1985, he oversaw an equally relentless slashing of expenses...
...Fifth Child, Doris Lessing once again explores the political by describing the personal. This new novel focuses on how society relinquishes responsibility for outcasts and the lower classes. Lessing's story is a fairy tale with a point, and her vision of British society is stern, satiric, and bleak...