Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confirm that the low-salt way may become the wave of the future, Morton Norwich, which converts millions of pounds of salt into dollars every year, reports that sales have dropped 10% over the past five years. But the company need not be glum. Sales of Morton's salt substitutes have risen 12%. So have the sales of other brands of table-salt substitutes. Store managers report NoSalt, perhaps because of its TV advertising, is selling so fast they cannot keep it in stock...
...most dangerous period that I have seen in 30-plus years in the banking business." Rohatyn is wor ried about possible corporate bankruptcies and the failure of some banks or savings and loan institutions as well as rising unemployment. Last week the Labor Department released figures that supported those glum views. Unemployment in December jumped to a near record 8.9%, up from 8.4% in November...
...just another humanist crying out against the inroads of technology. He knows science well enough to be playful about it. He understands that the weakest link in any theory may be the theoretician. His message is not glum but comic: if a perfect machine ever arose, miraculously, from its imperfect builder, no one would trust...
Though few people ever get to see the furry white beasts, except for glum captives in city zoos, there is a plethora of polar bears around Churchill, especially in fall. By the time the ice freezes on Hudson Bay, as many as 200 may have passed through what local residents call the Polar Bear Capital of the World. The onetime fur-trading center happens to sit astride one of the animals' age-old migratory routes...
McLaughlin thought the experiment with the zone worked well and promised that the Crimson would try it again against other quick teams. Looking a little glum after dropping an intra-family contest to brother Tom, the UMass coach, he complained that each of the Crimson's last three losses came against teams hitting close to 60 per cent of their shots from the floor...