Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation is bleak," Mayer said. Long-run measures he cited included an increased investment in agricultural improvement, which requires large amounts of capital. "I will feel confident when I see one tenth of the capital invested in armaments used for agricultural improvements," he said...
...this week's elections, Americans were in a bleak and pessimistic mood. To an overwhelming extent, they were preoccupied with rising prices, and with good reason: one out of three families considered itself in serious financial trouble because of inflation. Yet most people thought that neither the Government nor business was likely to provide the leadership and solutions needed to heal the economy. Things seemed out of control to many Americans, and there was a disturbing sense that conditions might soon get even worse. Indeed, nearly one out of two feared that there was no way that...
...else puts some of his 3,500 Golden Oldie records on the gramophone. A painstaking craftsman who charges up to $1,500 to recondition an old player piano and often works into the small hours on a job that excites his imagination, the squire of Bleakmoore is far from bleak. Indeed, he may well be the best-adjusted citizen of Tivoli. As a friend and fellow craftsman puts it, "He has discovered the past -and it works...
Further, the new model is used merely to indicate the possible consequences of actions-or lack of them. Unlike Limits, the new book does not use questionable logic or mathematics to support a bleak, inequitable philosophy of no growth. Indeed, it promotes the idea of selective growth: less industrialization in the rich countries to counterbalance more in the poor nations...
Accompanied by 200 friends and sympathizers, the painters arrived about noon to set up their exhibit in a vacant lot surrounded by bleak new apartment towers. As they began putting canvases on improvised wooden stands, a man who called himself Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (the Russian equivalent of John Doe) announced that he was leading a group of volunteer workers to turn the site into a "park of culture." At a signal from Ivan, the burly "volunteers" began grabbing paintings, ripping canvas and splintering frames. At another signal, several handy bulldozers and dump trucks roared to the site and began churning...