Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pledged to clean it up?by getting rid of bad bank loans, privatizing government-run behemoths like the postal service and killing useless public-works projects. But he also warned that it would hurt at first: salaries would shrink, jobs disappear. Now, he's retelling that tale of gloom on the eve of the July 29 election to the upper house of parliament. His Liberal Democratic Party needs to retain a majority of seats for Koizumi to remain in office. But unlike his predecessors?Japan has had nine Prime Ministers in the past 10 years?Koizumi isn't trying...
...Wall Street is pretty much tasting its own cooking these days, and that means earnings - and maybe cable guys - will be setting the temperature of the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 for a while yet. And with everyone awaiting gloom and doom, well, there's always a chance, however slim, for a pleasant surprise...
...likes of Lucent and Nortel pile on bad news. Everyone knows about the glut of cell phones, PCs, chips and fiber-optic line gathering dust. Earnings stink across the board, and stock-market gurus predict we're headed for a demoralizing test of the April lows. In short, gloom is as plentiful as the routers and switches Cisco can't sell. So a lot of investors are hedging their allegiance to technology--and rightfully so. If you want easy odds, take the Lakers to threepeat. Investing in tech has never been a lay-up, save for a few aberrational years...
...transvestite hooker--breaking onto MTV's Total Request Live. Last week Break the Cycle (Flip Records/Elektra), an angsty slab of dysfunction-metal from Staind, entered the charts at No. 1, selling a surprising 716,000 copies in one week. Right behind it was Lateralus (Tool Dissectional/Volcano), from arty gloom rockers Tool, which came out at No. 1 a week before, displacing red-hot girl group Destiny's Child. (Weezer hangs in at No. 9.) Overnight--Hello, Cleveland!--kids were ready to rock again...
There's still plenty of room for Myers' comic gloom. His Shrek is, indeed, the perfect foil for the Donkey's irrepressibility. Diaz, too, has an excellent character to play. You've gotta see what she does to Robin Hood and his Merry Men when they get fresh with her. She is also not exactly what she seems...