Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Childhood depression is a disturbingly common phenomenon. About 3.4 million Americans under 18 are said to be "seriously" depressed. That's a lot of gloom in a group so young--and a lot of potential consumers for Prozac and its neurochemical cousins Zoloft and Paxil. In North America, up to 800,000 antidepressant prescriptions were written last year for children, some only five years old. A number of those kids were also taking stimulants like Ritalin, since depression can be a by-product of wrestling with ADHD...
...spent my summer in Hong Kong, one of the areas in Asia whose economy has gone down the drain. Before my visit, I hadn't realized how bad it is. An air of gloom hung over the whole city--all the malls were empty, the shops filled with "Going Out of Business" signs and the headline news everyday was either of another jump in the unemployment rate or of yet another major company closing down. The suicide rate has gone up; there was an unemployment-related one just a few days...
...second act sets were equally beautiful, adding to the gloom and sorrow of the graveyard and representing both the betrayal of the past and the perpetual sadness of the present and future. The backdrop of dead and broken trees matched the single wooden cross marking Giselle's grave at the front of the stage. The simplicity of the sets complemented the pure white long tutus of the wilis and the bouquet of white lilies that Albrecht let fall one by one over Giselle's grave...
...have more detractors than anything west of Indonesia. Though many oil-service firms are already trading near two-year lows, analysts' earnings estimates for them will soon be revised further downward. No brokerage will want the likes of Halliburton or Schlumberger on its "recommended" list. The gloom around these stocks is only deepening. And I am buying them hand over fist...
When Carter and Mondale lost the 1980 election to Reagan and Bush, Eleanor was far from the gloom in Washington. At the time she was a sophomore in St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.; a phys ed major who dreamed -- like so many girls her age -- of making it big in Hollywood. Unlike the other girls, however, her famous name helped take her there, and Eleanor Mondale made her TV debut in January 1981 on the ABC show "240-Robert." She played a bank teller, and spoke exactly six words: "Here's Miss Harper's file, Mr. Talmadge...