Word: despairing
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...easy for the government to throw out loose terms like time limits and gainful employment in the name of reform and cutting the deficit by $60 billion in the process when the harsh realities of these so-called reforms are higher infant mortality, hunger, homelessness, higher crime, violence and despair...
What this bill really is talking about, in terms very tangible and imaginable, is starvation and homelessness in the name of reform, unemployment and despair in the name of reform, a downward spiral towards devolution in the name of reform and, in the words of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), a "social calamity" in the name of reform. If this be reform, then give me the status...
...high time for the Syrians, the Iranians, the Lebanese and all others who continue to deny Israel's right to exist to accept the Israelis' sensible precondition to security. Anything less is guaranteed to catapult the Arab countries back into the center of a downward spiral into poverty, despair and hopelessness. I am tremendously encouraged by the opening gambit of the Netanyahu camp. Time will tell whether Assad and company will grasp an outstretched, yet protected, hand...
...think the most powerful of this forum was [the message] that people should get involved," said Derek A. Curtis, a second-year student of the Divinity School. "There's an apathy and despair about politics that's keeping people away, but that's the wrong thing to think...
Like most sci-fi movies, ID4 is a sensation machine. You leave saying "Wow!" instead of a speculative "Hmmm." These days the real head scratchers are on TV; there you'll find the genre's cool, metallic intellect touched by the fever of despair. The X-Files' twin mantras--"The truth is out there" and "Trust no one"--are the ideal ingredients for a sci-fi cocktail with a '90s twist. The paranormal and the paranoiac have joined hands through a pop-cultural wormhole; they meet and multiply. It's not so much science as psychic or psychoanalytic fiction...