Word: glumly
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...business has gone from bad to worse around the world. In the U.S., more than 30% of the industry's 450,000-man work force is now unemployed or working short time, with steel mills operating at their lowest level since 1938. The situation in Europe is equally glum. During the past two years, there have been strikes in Britain and riots in Belgium and France as a result of job losses. The European steel industry ran about $2 billion in the red last year...
...British Catholic hierarchy was glum about the likelihood of a papal visit at a time of war, but a great deal was at stake. Very quickly, the British hierarchy launched a shuttle diplomacy effort designed to counteract the advice it knew the Pope was receiving from the ever cautious Curia. Archbishops Thomas Winning of Glasgow and Derek Worlock of Liverpool flew to Rome and at a hastily arranged luncheon in the Pope's private apartments, made a carefully prepared appeal, but it was soon clear that they were preaching to the converted. "I am convinced myself," the Pope said...
...help from writers who lost their sense of humor in their labyrinthine plot. The story is illogical and is without the kind of inventive startlements that make logic irrelevant to pleasure. Director Sidney Poitier is always cutting to some chase or other, all of which he handles with glum professionalism. But it is disheartening that a star team with the potential brilliance of Wilder and Radner had to take off on such an ungainly turkey...
...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...