Word: gloom
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...markets. Almost daily, myths that were pervasive among neophyte Chinese investors - that what happens to the U.S. economy doesn't matter to China, that the government in Beijing will always prop up the market - get exploded. The giddiness of the bubble is starting to be replaced by pervasive gloom. Fear is getting the better of greed. "This is reality," says Tian Junxiao, a 52-year-old investor who has been day trading for a living for six years. "Younger people are learning that the market can go up as well as down. It's a hard lesson...
...rest of the band (which includes two sets of brothers) pushed back and forth against one another to achieve an energy and sonic tension that both offset and accentuated the gloom of love and loss, matching the emotional rise and fall beat for beat...
Across the country, in the anti-Detroit that is San Diego, real estate is also slumping. The gloom, however, is far less pervasive. "Yes, it's a troublesome market, but it's not terrible," contends broker Leona Kline...
...tailored to niche audiences, along with the decline of newspapers’ advertising-based business model and a burgeoning school of thought that dismisses even the possibility of objective journalism, have conspired to erode the bottom line at many newspapers and left many journalists waiting for a pink slip. Gloom and doom about the future of journalism has become the norm and, in the minds of many, Murdoch’s acquisition of Dow Jones is but another turn in journalism’s downward spiral. While such fears are understandable, we believe that, in the long term, news sources...
...After an hour of doom and gloom, the film shifts into problem-solving mode - as it must, to keep us from feeling so much eco-anxiety that we'll want to commit eco-suicide. The solutions promoted here are very much design-oriented, showing all the ways we can plot and plan our way to a more energy-efficient, sustainable tomorrow, today. Green architecture gets star placement, and eco-design gurus like William MacDonough talk about the need to create "cradle-to-cradle" products that can be recycled, or reincarnated, over and over. It might be a conscious choice...