Word: doldrums
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...certainly makes the mission much more urgent,” Suhrcke says. “It’s more compelling now. There was sort of a doldrum, I think, during the 80s when everyone was feeling good. People were comfortable and complacent...
...course, maybe what he's not saying is that he's done all he can do. This doldrum could definitely be around a while. In the recessionary manufacturing sector, capacity utilization - actual production, as opposed to how much it could produce if anybody wanted it - is at the lowest point since the last recession. Banks are writing off bad loans hand over fist, and plenty gun-shy about lending to businesses with too few customers, no matter how cheap the money...
Earnings worries, euro worries, Greenspan worries - they've been dragging the Dow and NADSAQ down, session by session, doldrum by doldrum, for weeks. But throw in some Gulf War flashbacks, and you've got a real live selloff...
...some such doldrum, adrift in giddiness or despair, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. Sure enough, Wonder Boys (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is, rather too cutely, not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel his hero Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. Tripp's well-reviewed early books are receding into the distant past, and he feels fraudulent when his writing students admire them. He pretends optimism to his editor, but the truth is that his half-written book is an unreadable mass of unstrung...
...issue never received a full hashing-out on the editorial pages of campus publications, primarily because representatives of at least four Asian student groups disagreed with the AAA leaders. Besides Cheng and Hwang leveled the insensitivity charge during exam period, a political doldrum...