Word: gloom
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...music never entirely succumbs to this gloom, with bright shiny guitar lines and evilly catchy choruses. This is pop music with growl and bite...
...future looked bright despite the tearful farewells. But a shadow has fallen among the ivory towers. A growing number of students arrive on campus suffering from depression and other emotional disorders--some diagnosed, some hidden. So that traditional moment of new beginnings is haunted by deep anxiety and gloom...
Starbucks shrugs off such dire predictions. "Analysts love the doom and gloom," says Lovina McMurchy, director of Starbucks Interactive. "We believe there is money in wi-fi," she insists. This past summer Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz even pointed to wireless as a factor contributing to the company's $410 million in revenues in June 2003, a 27% increase compared with $323 million in June 2002. Neither Starbucks nor T-Mobile will say how many people are using the service or how much money the venture has actually made...
...Maybe so, but a number of voices around Tokyo's Otemachi financial district remain worried. Although Japan Inc. is no doubt making progress on some structural-reform initiatives and investors are enjoying a respite from gloom and doom, many doubt whether all the ingredients are in place for a genuine, lasting recovery. "The weakness in the preceding year was hard to explain," says Richard Jerram, chief economist at ING in Tokyo, "but a lot of people are trying to make this [rally] into something it isn't." Scratch beneath the surface on some of the headline-making numbers and Japan...
...Moscow-based Russian retail company that has recently become known as a savior of sorts in the fashion world. Brands like Gucci, Prada and Chanel are partnering with Mercury to open outlets in Russia, and the country is one of the few bright spots in the global economic gloom of the last few seasons. But Verber is even more valuable to the fashion world this year: in October, Mercury will try its hand at department stores. TsUM, a vestige of Russia's communist past, is one of two major stores that were owned and operated by the government (from...