Word: dismalness
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...threw away nearly all of it. "The big socially significant characters were not coming alive," he says. Working in a small writing studio in Harlem, he says, "I literally extracted a more personal book from that one." The book he finally wrote focuses on the inner lives and dismal family dynamic of the Lamberts, a couple of whom were minor characters in the book he abandoned. Alfred, a retired railway-bridge engineer and basement-lab inventor, is a man sliding into the mental and physical chaos of Parkinson's disease. His wife Enid devotes much of her energy to denying...
...Last week the bond market began, in spurts, to show signs of pessimism again, bidding down long-term rates in expectation that a recovery - and inflation - was a long way off. Stocks, after trying mightily to find their footing in a week of decent economic numbers and unsurprisingly dismal earnings news, stumbled anew on Friday. And if you think the Fed?s 25 basis points wasn?t discounted about a month ago, well, go ahead and load up on equities before 2:15 p.m. Tuesday. See where it gets...
Taylor’s finish of 56.28 seconds in the preliminaries was a considerable improvement over her dismal 57.95-second performance in her most recent IAAF Grand Prix race in Stockholm on July 17, but still short of the personal record of 55.46 seconds she set at Zagreb on July...
...price elasticity - meaning smokers, when confronted with price increases, simply pay up - and cigarette makers have simply passed the extra costs on to consumers. Talk about a business model - Philip Morris was the best-performing Dow stock of 2000, gaining 90 percent, and reported 8 percent profits in the dismal-for-most second quarter...
...This is how it is all over Asia. Calculator punchers have spent the past couple of weeks apologizing for their earlier, relatively rosy forecasts. Now they say the next six months could bring the most dismal growth since the financial apocalypse that hit the region in 1997. Singapore looks to be headed toward full-blown recession, while things in Taiwan haven't been this bad since the early 1970s. Currencies most everywhere are getting clobbered. Stock markets are comatose. And you could just about paper over Bangkok's skyscrapers with all the pink slips Asia's companies are handing...