Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gloom amid a boomlet? Detroit automakers are seeking major concessions from the Administration, particularly on trade issues involving the Japanese, and are entering a summer of tough bargaining talks with the United Auto Workers. In other words, too much good news too soon could cost them gains on other issues...
...taps. Most plays about AIDS, including this year's Pulitzer prizewinner Angels in America, send the disease's victims raging or nobly wasting away into the bleak night. They can play Lear or Camille, but they don't get to do Bette Davis. Rudnick believes that "adding to the gloom doesn't help anyone. In fact, you should be constantly striving for the reverse. You don't want to look up from a hospital bed and see people constantly crying." A mope is a most ineffectual nurse...
Katherine's flight to Euclid Street was part of a larger exodus of both people and businesses as a cloud of almost palpable gloom settled over the city. Katherine was one of those suffering from the psychological aftershock. Walking past the eerie hulks of burnt-out buildings to get to her job made her nervous. Even worse, she had come to fear the drug addicts and petty criminals who frequented the restaurant; many of them had taken part in the destruction and seemed to have become less law-abiding as a result. One night, after a customer was shot...
Even so, doom-and-gloom media stories are popping up everywhere. A week ago, the Boston Globe described its state's restaurant business as "limping through the past few years, when about one in every five establishments closed their doors," according to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, which is affiliated with the national group. What the article failed to mention was that for every eatery that failed, a new one was launched...
Along empty, unlit streets in the gathering gloom, sleighs rasp over the ice. They carry branches lopped off trees that now stand like amputees in mute supplication to the heavens. Soon this last source of fuel for the city's l.5 million hungry, freezing residents will be gone, and the suffering will intensify...