Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...healthy long-term growth in productivity, real wages and standard of living. I rushed to the library to reread The New York Times, in the hope of finding some indication that my line of thought had been considered by some optimistic pundit. Alas, I found nothing but gloom and doom in the articles themselves. But in a sidebar that featured the opinions of various experts in business and economics, I found a rumination that cheered me greatly. The particular expert being quoted was Bill Gates. "Men and women are worried that their own jobs will become obsolete...that economic upheaval...
...hoopla at Harvard over Wilson's well-publicized defection--and the corresponding gloom at Chicago--is a hallmark of how far black studies has come since its inception during the late 1960s. Back then, even die-hard proponents of the field concede, these programs were more a sop to the angry black students who had just begun to show up in large numbers on white campuses than a serious endeavor--the higher educational equivalent of building swimming pools in the inner city to take the heat out of long, hot summers. Poorly funded and often staffed by barely qualified teachers...
Harvard does offer these romantics some alternatives in hope of alleviating their gloom. A "No Valentine?--Laugh It Off" event is being held at Loker Commons, for instance...
Weather-related effects are not the only factors involved with the winter gloom. After all, the gray skies are accompanied by the end-of-semester blues...
...their good fortune. Unless something unusual happens, the Chronicle of Philanthropy estimates that charitable contributions this year will average something like $265 per person, or 1.27% of Americans' income--a total of $108 billion. By this measure Americans are the most charitable people on earth. Even so, deep gloom suffuses the country's charitable groups. Those who help the poor and desperate believe if the budget-balancing plan goes into effect as passed by Congress, charities and their clients face a potent double whammy: a drop in direct government support for charitable organizations just as demand for their help surges...