Word: dreadfulness
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...said what was on everyone's lips on the Street when the news hit: The expectations index is now in "territory normally seen prior to a recession." Translation: When layoffs, cutbacks, slowing growth and the r-word start to imprint themselves on the public mind, folks stop spending, and dread quickly becomes reality. (The last such sharp drop in the index? Right before the 1990 recession...
...work, draw his daily panels, and go to bed at night feeling he's done his bit. At the same time, Schulz had a conflicted sense of duty. The unprecedented obligations of his new role as world-famous cartoonist kept him in a state of constant anxiety and dread. He loved to be asked to go places and do good things and receive prestigious honors, but he hated to leave home and routine. He felt he should meet people and see the world, but he was increasingly phobic about travel. He panicked on airplanes, broke out in a cold sweat...
...dizzying labryinth of bureacratic institutions and procedures. Want to change your concentration? Fill out these 10 forms please. Want a special concentration? You'll find yourself wading through paperwork for weeks. And we've all heard horror stories about the first bureacratic organization we encounter at Harvard--the dread Freshman Dean's Office...
...dread what traveleth nigh: "Where there is no vision, the people perish...
...Democrats wanted to change the rules for deciding elections, and the Florida Supreme Court decided to let them. When the justices ruled Tuesday night that the hand counts could proceed, provided they were finished by 5 p.m. Sunday, the Bush camp for the first time felt some genuine dread. "I guess the rules aren't the rules anymore," said an ally bitterly. Didn't it mean anything that the votes had been counted and counted again; the state legislature had set a one-week deadline for the counties to certify their results; and the secretary of state had affirmed...