Word: glummer
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...plays Bond now, and his turn in Casino Royale in 2006 hit the reset button on the franchise. Like the Christian Bale Batman Begins, the Craig Casino showed a young man taking his first steps toward superhero status. He was stern and ferocious, similar to protagonists in the grittier, glummer, more violent action-adventure films of the past few years. The new 007 was the ultimate fighter, not the ultimate lover. And like Jason Bourne, who woke up one day having forgotten his identity, the Bond series acquired a selective amnesia that erased whole areas of the franchise. Gone were...
...home for winter break, I felt little holiday cheer. The airline employees were hardly sympathetic to passenger cries for compensation, compassion, consolation – anything. This was not the way I wanted to start off the notoriously short holiday break. And just as I was feeling glummer than glum, Grinch-like, Scrooged even, I opened my New York Times to find that schoolchildren can’t celebrate “Christmas” anymore...
...Certainly the news was all Wall Street needed to start wailing again. The markets took another beating to close a mostly bruising week as investors ignored the glass-half-full interpretation (at least the Fed won't raise rates next week) in favor of the glummer view: The longer businesses wait before hiring again, the greater the chance consumers will run out of money, or the confidence to spend it, before they do. The business' recovery, meanwhile, can't sustain itself without consumer demand...
...Overall, retail sales fell 4.5 percent for the month through Dec. 22 compared with the comparable period in November, Instinet Research's Redbook report said Wednesday. And Instinet had a glummer view of the past week, pegging the week's sales at a 0.6 percent drop (still an improvement from the 1.1 percent decline of the previous week...
...report that growth for April-May-June was a pale 0.7 percent, which could have been worse - it could have been negative 0.7 percent, the official signal of a recession - but it sure as hell could have been better. Not only are corporate earnings glum and corporate profits glummer, corporate spending - the capital investment that makes the economy grow sustainably - was non-existent...