Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FDIC Chairman L. William Seidman disputed the CBO's bleak prediction, contending that the insurance fund would remain "solvent but weak." Seidman said the banking industry could bolster the fund without help from taxpayers. But Seidman did acknowledge that if the recession lasts for more than a year, the fund will run dry by the end of 1991 and run a deficit of more than $5 billion...
While losing a job is always a wrenching experience, most senior managers can count on reasonable severance as well as personal savings to cushion the blow. But for legions of workers whose prospects of finding a place in a shrinking job market are bleak, the money is fast running out. More than 2.2 million people used up all six months' worth of unemployment benefits last year, a 16% increase from a year earlier. Worse still, a study released in December by Mathematica Policy Research, a consulting firm, found that 60% of unemployed workers were in the desperate position of still...
UNTIL LAST WEEK, the future of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department looked bleak. The department had only one full-time professor--and he was on leave. Harvard had made three recent tenure offers to scholars in the field--and all three had turned Harvard down...
Twenty years ago my memories of America's social temperature kept me in a feverish, high pitch of militant social protest. I led my vocalizing of that anger by expounding on the African Americans' bleak past as the target of tar burnings, rape, castrations, assasinations and the rest...
...Unless Bush changes his present direction," Lockman said, "the decade of the 90s will be extremely bleak for all of us. There is a certain price that all of us will have to pay for this--and we're only at the start...