Word: gloom
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...nothing will cure my gloom as I exit Annenberg for the last time—not even the promise of more edible food. But the addition of Annenberg class nights would put a damper on my sadness and bring me back, if only occasionally, to the people that have made by freshman year so special...
...economy is growing at about 9.5% 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. 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...
...life--in my case, common Chicago life. Bellow's work, from first to last, is the biography of a place, a map of his own consciousness as it evolves against the backdrop of the bleak industrial city, with its stockyards and sooty cast-iron buildings, shrouded in a midday gloom...
...have been raised by the cascade of contradictory Bush blinks-sharp tax cuts, exploding Medicare benefits, the Social Security hand grenade-plus the apparent disappearance of the Republican Party's traditional fiscal restraint. "The conventional wisdom is too cheerful," joked Maya Macguineas, the group's president, surveying the prevailing gloom. But when she asked the assembled wizards why these impending disasters weren't having a more immediate impact on the markets, there was a long silence followed by hemming and hawing. The contrast to Bush's intuitive certainty couldn't have been more stark...
...euro has soared against the dollar over the past three years - it's up more than 40% since 2002 - European leaders have been trafficking in gloom and doom. Politicians gripe about the damage to their national economies. France's new Finance Minister, Hervé Gaymard, last month called the dollar's decline "very worrying" and said Washington needed to fix the problem. And German trade groups sound more like self-help gurus when they talk - as they frequently do - about the currency crossing "a pain threshold." But despite all the whining, the strong euro has been a considerable boon...