Word: gloomed
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...sounds like a recipe for economic disaster: oil prices soared, while central banks across the world hiked interest rates. But last year the global economy defied gloom-and-doomsayers and continued to grow robustly. The combination of big-spending U.S. consumers and a booming China that feeds the Western appetite for low-priced products resulted in a second consecutive year of worldwide growth, estimated at more than 4%. That's the strongest two-year growth period in three decades, and there's more good news to come: the world economy is on track to enjoy another bumper year...
...People must not give in to hurricane fatigue. They must not focus primarily on the negative side of New Orleans. We want the town to revive and be healthier than it was before. Emphasizing gloom will discourage industrious citizens from returning, investors from building new enterprises, and hospitals, schools and other institutions from reopening. And it could keep the rest of the country from caring. Many New Orleanians are working extremely hard, most with no expectation of government help or aid from charities. Americans should open their eyes to the energy of the people who are working their tails...
People must not focus primarily on the negative side of New Orleans. We want the town to revive and be healthier than before. Emphasizing gloom will discourage citizens from returning, investors from building new enterprises, and hospitals, schools and other institutions from reopening. And it could keep the rest of the country from caring. Many New Orleanians are working extremely hard, most with no expectation of government help or charity aid. Americans should open their eyes to the energy of the people who are working their tails off to renew the city of New Orleans. KATHERINE LAWRENCE New Orleans...
...Chinese looking at images of older aspects of China?the narrow hutongs, children dressed like soldiers?often worry that they make the country appear backward. Delano doesn't try to allay such anxieties. Rather, the gloom and smog of his prints augment the impression that China is benighted, inscrutable, forlorn. If Delano were purely a journalist, we might demand a wider, more balanced view. But he's not. His photographs are the work of an artist and no matter what they choose to tell us, or not tell us, about China, their beauty makes us want to look at them...
...Miami-based cruise ship Seabourn Spirit motored south along the Somali coast just over a week ago. Most of the 312 people aboard--151 passengers and 161 crew members--were asleep; the boat was expected in Mombasa, Kenya, that afternoon. Then, out of the gloom, came a burst of gunfire. Passengers later said they saw inflatable rubber boats speeding toward the Spirit, each carrying four or five men dressed in black and armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. As the pirates drew closer, they began unloading their weapons onto the 439-ft.-long, seven-deck cruise ship. Passengers...