Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While Kindle 2 might help book publishers, it continues to frustrate periodical publishers. Aside from different logos, all newspapers and magazines look the same on a Kindle since it cannot render different fonts. And, because it can't yet handle color, it's a bleak format for magazines, which heavily depend on color photographs, illustrations and artful packaging...
...cliff notes penned on Leo Tolstoy’s seminal “Anna Karenina.” Here’s what you need to know. Anna was a cheating whore and an opium addict. She abandoned her children, her husband and her class, and killed herself. Pretty bleak, right? I think there were some trains too. Also Vronskys, Oblonskys and other skis. Part of the book was about skiing. Are you accusing me of never reading this book? Why don’t you read it if you think you’re so smart. Fuck you. It?...
...Tuvia’s inner journey to become a cool-headed leader of the Jewish refugee camp is a well-executed and successful opposite for Zus. While the audience might anticipate scene-after-scene of imprisonment and execution, Zwick’s film opts out of presenting the bleak misery within the camps, instead exploring the emotional challenge for those outside of the concentration camps. Zwick nestles the Bielski Otriad in a beautiful forest—a place that is far from the war, with the potential for recreating lives. This uplifting environment creates a setting for possibility...
Aiming to reduce costs in a bleak fiscal climate, Harvard has tightened faculty hiring in recent months—a move that has raised the question of whether certain peer universities are seizing the opportunity to acquire the best young talent...
...Layoffs Cut Deeper Bleak job news continued, with all sectors of the economy--from prescription drugs to construction equipment--buckling under the pressure. More than 50,000 U.S. job cuts were announced on Jan. 26 alone, adding to the 2.6 million lost since December 2007. The Labor Department also announced that 21,137 mass layoffs--involving 50 or more job cuts at once--took place...