Word: dismalness
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...contracted 8.4% from the same period a year earlier, the worst quarter on record. South Korea's GDP shrunk 3.4% in the fourth quarter, Singapore's fell 3.7% and Hong Kong's dipped 2.5%. Eric Fishwick, head of economic research at brokerage CLSA in Hong Kong, predicts these dismal numbers will persist. He sees Singapore's GDP contracting 10% this year, while South Korea's will decline 7%, Hong Kong's will slide 5% and Taiwan's will drop, stunningly, by double digits. "We've never seen an external shock in Asia like this," says Fishwick...
...Makdah - who was born in Lebanon and has been a fighter since the age of 12 - vowed that Palestinian leaders negotiating with Israel would never trade away the right of return. "No peace agreement can survive if there is one refugee outside the homeland," he said. The Palestinians' long, dismal wait seems doomed to continue...
Against Princeton on Friday, the team was shooting a dismal 14.8 percent after the first half.The Crimson adjusted to the situation, changing to a more physical game plan to overcome a 22-point deficit. Harvard looked for its big players and Markley responded...
...accompanied me to the wasteland of a building that houses Staples along with much of Harvard Square’s own Little Asia. Between Wagamama, Bombay Café, Shilla, 9 Tastes and Om, this stretch of JFK Street is a hot pot of its own. We ascended a single dismal flight of stairs, passed the noticeably empty noodle joint, Wagamama (perhaps, thanks to this reviewer), and an eyebrow-raising view into the seedy kitchen of the Bombay Café, only to find ourselves filled with trepidation at the doorstep of Shabu-Ya. The restaurant’s psychedelic...
...popular idea in Washington, given the Venezuelan leader's strident anti-U.S. histrionics. But it's smarter than trying to isolate Chávez, which in the long run would bring us more headaches than headway in the effort to repair Washington's dismal relations with Latin America...