Word: gloom
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...bought those oil and gas stocks, he laments, "we'd be nicely ahead of the market now." For once, he understands how hapless the market makes the rest of us feel, but in Miller's case, that lesson in humility may prove as ephemeral as the gathering gloom over the price...
...officers who spoke with TIME or their ranking superiors could provide a plausible road map toward stability in Iraq. It is quite possible that the occupation of Iraq was an unwise proposition from the start, as many U.S. allies in the region warned before the invasion. Yet, despite their gloom, every one of the officers favors continuing--indeed, augmenting--the war effort. If the U.S. leaves, they say, the chaos in central Iraq could threaten the stability of the entire Middle East. And al-Qaeda operatives like al-Zarqawi could have a relatively safe base of operations in the Sunni...
...Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) indexes rose from 782.4 and 702.3 respectively last Monday to 803.2 and 715.4 by Friday's close. When Fitch Ratings upgraded Russia's sovereign credit rating last week to BBB from BBB-, the picture looked even rosier, and pundits pronounced the post-Yukos gloom to be over. But Mikhail Delyagin, an economist and head of the Moscow-based Institute of Globalization Studies, urges caution. "The indexes are propelled by growing oil prices," he says, arguing that most of the Russian economy is under the influence of Moscow's political élite. Even so, with...
...Burton’s signature style and imagination is the golden ticket. Just as in “Big Fish,” we are treated to an unreal world where we want to believe. The stark grays of reality—and the gloom of abject poverty—are complemented by the rainbow colors of candy in the Wonka factory and the brilliant blues in the spick-and-span toothpaste plant where Charlie’s father worked...
...economy is growing at 9% a year, and Shanghai is the epicenter of the boom, yet apartments there still cost far less than in Hong Kong, Tokyo or New York City. That gap will close, says Marc Faber, an emerging-markets expert who writes a newsletter called the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report. "Eventually," he predicts, "Shanghai property prices will be higher than prices in New York...