Word: glumly
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...commanders felt better too. Just three days before the raid, Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of coalition ground troops in Iraq, had looked glum as he briefed reporters, pleading with an Iraqi journalist that he needed local intelligence about where to find fugitive regime leaders. The day after the raid, he was radiant, announcing, "Yesterday was a landmark day for the people and for the future of Iraq...
...salesman in a boutique on the city's upmarket shopping street, the Kurfürstendamm: "I lost my job because people think twice before spending their money on extras like expensive clothes or dinner at a restaurant." Even Berlin's famous nightlife has been affected by the glum mood. Mike Stolz, co-owner of Guppi, a trendy bar in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, complains that there has been no growth in his business. "People come here but consume less," Stolz says. "I have let part-timers go because I can't afford them anymore." Stolz, 37, sees a plus side...
Something was different. There were few tears. There were few glum faces. Instead, I saw a satisfied squad that knew it had just hung with the No. 7 team in the nation. I saw a Crimson team that understood it had finally played up to its expectations against a top-25 opponent. I saw 11 Harvard players who will be hungrier, more talented and more experienced when the NCAA Tournament rolls around...
...Orleans, the work force at the Lockheed Martin plant that applies the foam to the shuttles' external tanks had already fallen from 4,800 before the Challenger explosion to 2,000 now. There's concern that Columbia's death could slash the payroll even further. Things are similarly glum in Chicago at the headquarters of Boeing, the shuttle's principal contractor, where workers are still reeling from the 15,000 layoffs that followed the terrorism-related slowdown in air travel...
...housing market, it's the same old lonely story that it's been for two years:? propping up consumers' spirits - and spending - while the rest of the economy lies exhausted on the floor, still trying to struggle to its feet. Standing proud amid the glum procession of economic indicators and Wall Street selloffs in the past week have been stellar year-end numbers from the Commerce Department in housing starts (up 5 percent to a 1.835 million-unit annual rate in December, the highest since 1978), new home sales (up 3.5 percent to an annualized 1.08 million, a new record...