Word: despairs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...trip to Disneyland this summer, it will cost more than you may have thought. The Southern California landmark has begun charging children 10 and over the adult ticket price of $41 that previously applied to those 12 and up. Umm, isn't it a kids' theme park? Don't despair: guests 3 to 9 continue to get in for just $31--a real bargain. But will you still want to spring for mouse ears this trip...
...term declines--especially ones as steep as last Friday's--that tempt you to panic? I don't mean to pick on CNBC. But it's the market leader in televised stock talk, and when the market is sinking, the anchors' grim faces and funereal tones only quicken your despair. Once weaned from hourly updates, you'll find it easier to hold fast to proven long-term strategies like broad diversification and dollar-cost averaging...
...violence we dont know how to confront is the violence of exclusion-the violence of a system that forbids its brightest students from studying what they love, that purposefully works its most promising talents to the point of exhaustion and despair. It is a subtle, unspoken, cold kind of violence, all the more disturbing for its complete lack of passion. It is a violence so ethereal that it is almost impossible to name, though a play like The Ohio State Murders makes it impossible to ignore. Ultimately, Stern and Kennedy were right to draw this most troubling layer of human...
...fans blindly get excited for the beginning of a new season with many of the same old jinxes still hanging over our heads, I know that the time will come when a new ballpark will replace Fenway, and well continue with the inevitable cycle of hope and despair in a different home. It's true that if done well, a new Fenway might be able to retain its uniqueness while also accommodating the demands of space and modernity. The challenge remains for Harrington and his supporters to adjust the competing pulls of history and progress in favor of the future...
...most of the tournament, Jim Nantz's color commentary grated on the nerves, and some guy named Vijay ended up winning it all by the comfortable margin of three strokes. I found myself sitting in front of my roommate's TV shaking my head. At that moment of despair, I realized that golf needed to spruce up its image in the coming years to attract the viewers necessary to compete with the likes of Chuck Norris...