Word: despairful
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...Reflect on fact that your best friend has won a Rhodes to study at Oxford for two years, your roommate has been accepted to grad school at Dartmouth, your high school boyfriend just signed with Morgan Stanley, and you can't even commit to spring break plans. Moan in despair. Snooze...
...latest cases will test a city that today has a new police chief, a new district attorney and at least 52 candidates for mayor. Yet in the streets the frustration and despair that helped trigger last year's violence show little change. "People are anxious about these trials," says Karen Bass, director of a substance-abuse center with headquarters in South Central. "There is sentiment that the lid could blow off again because people don't feel that their concerns are being addressed. No one wants to see the same thing happen again, but it is a real possibility. People...
Harvard Womens Hockey coach John Dooles sat forlornly at his desk in Bright Hockey Center last night with a look of supreme despair...
...Clinton vended optimism; now he must become a pitchman for austerity. He sold the nation a miracle product, All-New Hope: it gives you cleaner, cheaper government with a fresh minty flavor. But if it doesn't get the stains out, the electorate's high hopes could sour into despair. Then the man called ( Hope will become the man called Hype -- nothing more than a baby-boomer Babbitt. All the big stars and better angels will leave him out in the spotlight, stranded, unmasked...
...elderly are quick -- and correct -- to denounce the low savings rate among the young. But the growing reliance on subsidies from older generations is more a function of despair than greed, reflecting the downward mobility of millions of young families. "Inheritance looms larger by default," says Phillip Longman, author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America. "Increasingly, the only way for the young middle class to stay in the middle class is to inherit the trappings...