Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer an insignificant diner, it dominates the empty streets. Through the gathering gloom, its greasy siren call brings in the faithful: hordes of people whose only bond is a common craving for a nocturnal hamburger...
...depressing the market is a widespread belief that the Bank of Japan will boost interest rates to fight inflation, a move that would be likely to slow the country's economic growth. The trade talks between the U.S. and Japan, which resumed last week, were also a source of gloom. Ironically, yet another notable cause of last week's volatility is an American export, program trading, which a growing number of firms are now practicing on the Tokyo market...
Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet nor gloom of night...Cambridge City Councillors Jonathan S. Myers and Edward N. Cyr had plenty of serious business to deal with at this week's council meeting. But they also took the time for a not-so-serious innovation--the Golden Mail Sack Award. The council established the Award this week to honor the best tale of mismanaged mail at a Cambridge Post Office. Winners so far include a woman who recently recieved one piece of mail postmarked in 1985, and another Cantabridgian who recieved half of a letter one week...
...that the picture is brightening statistically after a decade of gloom, many research scientists and health-policy analysts question whether the changes wrought by AIDS activists harm basic research, the public health and perhaps even those who are at risk of acquiring the virus. Says Joel Hay, a health economist and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Things are out of whack." Three areas merit special concern...
BUSINESS: Who's in a boom? Who's in a gloom...