Word: grim
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...grim labor consisted of scooping handfuls of debris into 5-gal. white buckets. Mike picked through body parts and shoes and paperwork, but to him the most disturbing finds were the countless tools stamped F.D.N.Y. He and his Engine 28 colleagues were on a special mission as they dug: to find their six housemates from Ladder 11 who were among the missing...
...anonymous terrorist also got his grim deserts, "because, wherever he is, whether in Belfast or Bethlehem or our own backyard - he has fundamentally changed not just the way we live our lives, but how we view life itself...
Here are some grim, preventable statistics: Last year, 5,700 Americans died waiting for organ transplants, and right now more than 80,000 people are praying for word that a life-saving donor has been located. It?s not that there aren?t enough organs out there to go around - it?s simply that available organs are not being earmarked for donation. They?re being buried or cremated instead...
...biggest stock markets - for four days. The prices of oil, gold and bonds were sent soaring. The London FTSE, the Paris CAC and the German DAX all took double-digit losses in the first few days. By the end of September the news crossing the wires was grim and grimmer: corporate profits and consumer sentiment plummeting, unemployment shooting upward...
...Maybe some Americans really are responding to the call to shop for victory: October retail sales figures released earlier this month showed an extraordinary 7% jump over grim September. But most of the spending hike is accounted for by auto sales, which were inflated by those 0% financing deals offered by manufacturers desperate to clear their inventories...