Word: dismalness
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...Dismal as that performance was, it all seemed rather theoretical at the time. Not anymore. In the aftermath of the attack two weeks ago, the idea that weapons of mass destruction might be trained on the U.S.--not by such rogue nations as Iraq but by rogues like Osama bin Laden--suddenly seems a lot less unthinkable. Ordinary Americans are waking up in the middle of the night with nightmares about poisoned water supplies and miniature nuclear weapons set off in city streets...
When the stock market reopened Monday, the Dow dropped a dismal 684 points. The stock exchange had been closed for six days...
...trip for $20-$40, which includes boat rides, a bus to and from the capital and hotels halfway along in Bai Chay or Hong Gai, its polluted coal-mining neighbor to the east. (Getting there is definitely not half the fun: neither Bai Chay, Hong Gai nor Haiphong, a dismal collection of flyblown karaoke bars that are the jumping-off point to Ha Long Bay for those arriving by train from Hanoi, are places to linger...
...persuade the bond markets to bid down long-term interest rates, which make home and car loans cheaper and borrowing consumers richer. But mortgage rates are already at lows for the year, mainly because these days the bond marketeers' first concern is the same as everybody else's: the dismal state of the economy. And economists have been saying since the days of Keynes that austerity is definitely not the way to end a slowdown - in the short run, it's likely to make things worse...
...terrible," said Richard Hopple, CEO of the online-ad company Unicast. New York Times Digital CEO Martin Nisenholtz said, "I'm sure people feel that these ads are very intrusive." So why not cease and desist? Because, says Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Marissa Gluck, with the online market so dismal, "advertisers and publishers are desperate to find something that works...