Word: despairful
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...chastised. They also constitute a direct insult to people who are forced to live without jobs, food, or hope. After all, Reagan put his hand on a Bible in 1981 and swore to do certain things. If the media now want to call attention to millions of citizens facing despair, starvation, or death by exposure, the President should listen. Rhetorical attempts at martyring himself will not change Reagan's well-deserved image. Nor will they bring the country out of the dire straights into which the President has steered...
...proctor told the students not to despair the professor had left specific instructions that any member of the class who felt incompetent to take the exam should go right away to his office. So the student left the room and walked over to Robinson Hall the professor greeted him warmly and bid him sit-down. What seems to be the problem," he asked in a king voice...
Businessmen are not the only people to despair. In 1978, the International Monetary Fund sent Erwin Blumenthal, formerly a top official of West Germany's Bundesbank, to take over as the director of Zaïre's central bank. TIME has obtained a copy of the secret report he wrote to IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosiere early last year. In it, Blumenthal describes refusing high officials' requests for bundles of cash of up to $50,000, finding a government payment of $4 million to a Belgian professor who was the guardian of Mobutu...
...next election could turn on the contrast in leadership, observes: "This Prime Minister leads from the front, with her chin out." The man on the street puts it plainly: "She's gutsy." Even many of her numerous enemies acknowledge that the lady is a leader, even as they despair over where she is leading them...
...company has shipped all 10,000 of the Watchmans imported so far, and American distributors despair of getting enough to fill their back orders. Reason: the Japanese are buying the Lilliputian sets in such quantities (more than 5,000 per month) that the U.S. market remains on Sony's back burner. The company can use all the sales it can get. Profits for its most recently reported quarter fell sharply. Watchman is bound to help. 'Every piece we get we could sell 20 times,' says Sony's Miami-based Southeast regional manager, Barry Mitchell. In Dallas...