Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Does arguing for affirmative action necessitate a "gloom and doom" perception of American race relations, or is it just the result of "genuine honesty...
...African-American community has heard enough of the "gloom and doom" prophecies of life after affirmative action, said Abigail Thernstrom who, along with her husband, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom, co-authored America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible...
...dependable only as an endless source of jokes, the U.S. Postal Service has just delivered its third straight year of billion-dollar profits. The service, shorn of government subsidies in 1982 to make it more competitive, hauls 630 million pieces of mail a day through snow, rain, heat and gloom of night with a savvy that has raised its on-time rate for first-class letters to a reliable 92%. Polls show that the Postal Service is rising steadily in the public's esteem. "The more a federal agency has to compete in the market, the more likely...
...major Japanese financial institutions collapsed last month, dragging the value of the yen to a five-year low. The Nikkei stock-market average ricocheted anxiously on every shred of news. The only figures on the rise were those for bankruptcies, unemployment and suicides. National confidence congealed into a deep gloom as headlines warned of the coming "Great Depression." The government that for so many decades guided the economy with an iron hand is floundering, seemingly at a loss for ways to yank the country out of its tailspin. Kazumi Ehara, an auto salesman in suburban Tokyo, speaks for many...
...Economy is finally here - and to celebrate the digitally-inspired boom, TIME magazine has made Intel boss Andy Grove its 1997 man of the year. But while the California chip-makers are popping champagne corks, the Windows part of the "Wintel" axis has spent the week shrouded in gloom. The Justice Department has sunk its teeth into Microsoft, and neither Janet Reno nor Joel Klein seem inclined...