Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...company Elan, which has seen share prices plunge 90%, is the subject of an accounting investigation and is struggling to raise $1 billion from asset sales to stay afloat. But as Elan's chairman and CEO Donal Geaney stepped down last week, along with deputy chairman Tom Lynch, their gloom had not really spread to the rest of Ireland's economy. Danny McCoy, economist at Dublin's Economic and Social Research Institute, notes that the troubles of multinationals like Elan "haven't been that destabilizing because there isn't a huge public exposure to the stock market," and because Ireland...
...Christian media empire as much as anything else: "Because of the theology of our church, I don't think we're close to a Second Coming," he says. "But many of the major Christian media outlets believe that there is fulfillment, and people respond to that. People love gloom and doom. People love pending judgment. No. 1, they long to see Jesus, and No. 2, they look for the justice that Jesus will bring to the earth in his Second Coming...
...Investor gloom may well overshadow improving economic fundamentals through the summer. "The market has not bottomed," asserts Woody Dorsey, editor of Market Semiotics. "Bottoms are always made on capitulations of some type, and one may be close at hand...
...Investor gloom may well overshadow improving economic fundamentals through the summer. "The market has not bottomed," asserts Woody Dorsey, editor of Market Semiotics. "Bottoms are always made on capitulations of some type, and one may be close at hand...
...Hien's gloom that day was interrupted by a soft hiss. He looked up to see a woman in a dark suit, beckoning him to a coffee shop across the street. She had carefully coiffed hair and wore gold rings and necklaces. Her chauffeur-driven car was around the corner. According to Hien, she had a proposition for him. "She said she knew everyone who works in the consulate," Hien, 30, recalls. "She said, 'There's no need for you to worry anymore. Auntie will take care of everything.'" A week later, Hien found himself with a U.S. immigrant visa...