Word: bleakness
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...deserves. If the Scudders knew about him, they'd likely puree him for dinner. It almost seems as though we're about to head into some tough ethical territory, a sort of tween version of the 2008 critics' darling Wendy and Lucy, which featured Michelle Williams wrestling with the bleak prospect that her beloved dog might have a better life with someone else. Then Friday leads his young owners into an abandoned hotel, vacant but for two adorable stray dogs, and suggests, with a sidewise crook of his fluffy white head, that he'd prefer the Hotel Francis Duke...
...should go without saying that plenty of strong Obama supporters are not getting carried away. But they're not the ones setting the tone. The soprano Renée Fleming recently sang an Obamafied Christmas carol: "In the bleak midwinter, at the Christmas feast, a family leaves Chicago and travels to the East ..." The original starred the Christ child. This fever will break because that's what fevers do. Its sufferers are probably harmless. They sure can be creepy, though...
...said Frank-Juergen Weise, head of the Labor Agency. On Thursday, the government reported that German exports, the main driver of the country's economy, plunged 10.6% in November from the month before, the largest monthly decline since 1969. Joerg Kraemer, a Commerzbank economist, says the data support a bleak outlook on the overall economy. "We continue to expect German GDP to decline between 2% and 3% this year," says Kraemer...
...Toward the end of the general-election campaign, Obama was asked repeatedly what initiatives he would cut given the increasingly bleak economic reality. His responses then were suitably vague, and it turns out the answer appears to be: very few. Instead, most of those programs (and their price tags) are being added to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, all in the name of fixing the economy...
...agency's bleak outlook means the Postal Service will take more drastic steps. Some are primarily intended to attract more customers. Starting Jan. 18, for instance, online discounts and other savings plans begun in May 2008 will expand to make Postal Service prices more competitive - a move that could be showcased in a spring advertising campaign that will promote Priority Mail...