Word: gloomed
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...Edna was as uncomplicated as she probably was. You wrote it, stuck a stamp on the envelope and dropped it into a mailbox. Off it went in a red-white-and-blue truck, and a couple of days later the friendly neighborhood mailman walked it--through rain, heat or gloom of night--right to Auntie's door...
...course. The problem is that these days there are plenty of more cost-effective ways to battle rain, heat or gloom of night...
DOTCOM DOLDRUMS How many times can one industry boom, then bust? September saw yet another round of layoffs, bankruptcies and general gloom for the Internet industry. Analysts say there were more dotcom layoffs last month than in any month since last December. The NASDAQ plummeted more than 700 points, and websites from MTV.com to OfficeMax slashed their staffs. Even mighty Walmart.com shut its virtual doors to remodel for the holiday rush. The final irony, however, may have come when Dotcomfailures.com a website devoted to bankrupt Internet companies, went out of business. Now that's a downturn...
...empty, thy proud tow'rs wreathed in gloom...
...know that a brief run of bad sessions in September - or the one-time underperformance of a stock up 49 percent for the year when the news hit - do not an incumbent-ousting recession make. A few sprightly earnings numbers from the tech sector in October, and the current gloom could be a distant memory...