Word: cheerlessness
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...bonds for a lot of hot-money guys. When markets started to go against them, these types often doubled down. When the markets continued to go against them, as happened in Hong Kong last week, they borrowed even more. And when the selling persisted, I would get a cheerless call from John, my brokerage group's margin clerk. He would say, "Your client has until 2 p.m. to get enough money on to meet his margin call before we sell him out." I would then call the ne'er-do-well and urge him to send any collateral...
HAPPIER AT LAST Though menopause can seem like a cheerless event, it may actually alleviate emotional distress. The rate of women who suffer from anxiety or depression drops from 10.8% in women under 55 to 5.3% in those 55 and older...
...Dole campaign is fighting free fall with only two weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses. Dole's partisans knew they had a problem when the newspapers arrived, full of coffee-shop interviews and focus groups with voters who found Clinton cheery and Dole sour. An unusually cheerless Elizabeth Dole snapped to a TIME correspondent traveling with her in Keene, New Hampshire, "I sure didn't like what I just read.'' Polls in Iowa and New Hampshire showed the Republican front runner losing ground and Steve Forbes bounding into the No. 2 position. The mood at Dole's campaign headquarters...
...remake we probably don't need, offers us a Santa Claus cut along classic lines -- round, twinkly and played with a nice, comforting restraint by the redoubtable Richard Attenborough. The Santa Clause presents us with an Anti-Claus, Tim Allen of Home Improvement, hard-edged, discomfitingly frenetic and spritzing cheerless one-liners...
...true, that at first glance, there is somewhat of a solemn and desolate look to Canaday. But I would hardly go so far as to say that my dorm is "an insult to the educated mind." Nor would I agree with O'Shea that it is "cheerless...