Word: gloomier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago, the class of '88 was braced for a far gloomier situation. When the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 508 points on Oct. 19, it raised the specter of an economic recession and widespread joblessness. Fearful seniors -- joined by a smattering of overwrought underclassmen -- rushed to college placement offices in search of advice, sometimes creating such a backlog that students had to wait a month or more for an appointment with a counselor. Corporations grew just as edgy: some recruiters put campus visits on hold until they could sort out the aftereffects of the market meltdown...
...gloomier prophets of the American future, the long-term drop in the birthrate means that the U.S. has joined other industrialized nations in a Spenglerian decline of the West. In his forthcoming book, The Birth Dearth (Pharos Books; $16.95), Wattenberg points out that developed nations such as the U.S., Australia and the West European countries, which accounted for 22% of the world population in 1950, are being surpassed by the rapidly growing East bloc and Third World populations. The developed nations now account for just 15% of the world total, and will sink...
...month's ago many of Reagan's gloomier detractors warned that if Reagan were re-elected, Bob Hope would be entertaining our boys in Managua by Christmas. However, even the Reagan administration probably knows better than to seriously consider a Grenada style invasion in Nicaragua. The problem is not that we are on the verge of a Latin American Vietnam, but rather that our own administration seems determined to repeat some of history's mistakes...
...most visible signs, to be sure, point in the opposite direction. Polls have never looked gloomier for Democrats: a national survey by NBC News, published last week, showed Ronald Reagan leading Mondale by an astonishing 62% to 32%. Press coverage of the campaign is still predominantly funereal in tone. A sample headline from the New York Times, over a story about the attitudes of Democrats running for state or local Offices: SOME CANDIDATES FEAR MONDALE'S VISITS. The nominee is having trouble these days simply making himself heard over the jeers of pro-Reagan hecklers who now turn...
...continuous migration of peasants, who regard all the hardships of the overcrowded capital as an improvement on the hopeless poverty of their country villages. At current rates of growth, the U.N. estimates that Mexico City will house 26 million people by the year 2000. Mexico City's own, gloomier estimate projects an almost unimaginable 36 million at the end of the century-just 16 more years...