Word: gloomed
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...months now, the only silver lining for many amid the gathering economic gloom has been the pleasant sensation of filling their cars with ever cheaper gasoline. But that relief at the gas pump has slashed the revenues of the oil-producing countries, and on Wednesday they pushed back when the 11 oil ministers of the Opec cartel agreed to cut their combined output by about 2.2 million barrels a day starting January 1. The biggest production cut in Opec's 48-year history is an emergency measure aimed at reversing the precipitous slide in world oil prices, which the cartel...
...anticipation sank with the opening credits: "Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood." That list spelled out the plot: damaged veteran, middle-age girlfriend, young daughter. The Wrestler never rose above fight-movie bromides, never dispelled my gloom. The character stereotyping makes Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, by comparison, seem as swathed in moral ambiguity as Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. The movie's serioso sentimentality is doubly strange since the script is by Robert Siegel, an ex-staffer of The Onion and co-writer of The Onion Movie. His old job was puncturing clichés; here...
...Under the golden dome that tops the booth for Maître-Verrier, a French designer of high-end stained glass, saleswoman Claude Bonte captures the sense of optimism changing to gloom. "Russians are always good clients," she says, "for the moment...
...financial decisions, and the world’s richest university has a proportional amount to lose. Yesterday, the administration announced a 22-percent decline in Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment over the last four months—the sharpest drop in history. Worse yet, Faust predicted continued gloom for the endowment, with a forecasted 30-percent drop for the fiscal year ending in June 2009. At the same time, current estimates call for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to make next year’s budget about $200 million thinner. In other words, add Mass...
...gloom-and-doom camp makes a persuasive case. Nouriel Roubini, a professor at New York University, had been warning for years of the dangers of an international financial implosion - and the current economic crisis proved him depressingly right. In a recent article Roubini has laid out a bleak scenario for China. "The risk of a hard landing in China is sharply rising," he writes. "A deceleration in the Chinese growth rate ... is highly likely, and an even worse outcome cannot be ruled out." But a clique of China specialists inside the country predicts a different outcome. They believe that...