Word: bummere
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...Bush started to look acceptably reliable, the naturally Republican instincts of Street types took over. Price controls for pharmaceuticals? Big Bad HMOs? Rats in the barn? As a New Democrat Gore could be counted on to be sensible about these things; as an angry populist, he was a real bummer...
...years, casting the sort of wide statistical net that hardheaded academics favor and Wallerstein eschews as too impersonal. While Amato agrees with her about divorce's "sleeper effect" on children--the problems that crop up only after they're grown--he finds her work a bit of a bummer. "It's a dismal kind of picture that she paints," he says. "What most of the large-scale, more scientific research shows is that although growing up in a divorced family elevates the risk for certain kinds of problems, it by no means dooms children to having a terrible life...
Pretty soon, though, that won't be enough. And that's the one, colossal bummer about this new digital democracy: you probably need more money than ever just to tell people where to find you. The only way the do-it-yourselfers can get themselves noticed when they're up against the giant marketing power of the studios is through viral marketing--which works if your stuff gets people so excited that they e-mail it to two friends, who each in turn e-mail it to two friends, who each e-mail it to two more friends. This works...
...profit," I'd say, with the slightest hint of a grin. They never smiled back, and now I'm maybe finding out why: However much like a G.I. Joe fantasy camp (complete with pay and free food) the military may sometime seem, there is always a Bummer coming...
...discharge at the other, I will keep trying to wriggle my way out of this, as honorably as I can. I'm still working the phone, talking to the Army's people who can sometimes enforce the Army's regulations at their discretion. It's going to be a bummer either...