Word: grimmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation is even grimmer for merchants on the American side, where Mexican customers can no longer afford to shop with their devalued pesos. The stores of south El Paso, just across from Juárez, are almost deserted. "All our business came from Mexico," says Frank Roches, owner of Palace Jewelry. "They have no money now." Business is off 65% at the S.E.I. Fed Mart department store in the California border town of Calexico, and Owner Sergio Farias has laid off 180 of his 230 employees...
...sales breakdown by name plates showed an even grimmer picture. The Chevrolet division of General Motors, for example, sold a mere 38,104 vehicles. The March figure was 61.1% below the same period a year earlier and could be a harbinger of Chevy's worst year since 1958. The division is now selling about 1.3 milion cars annually; its best year ever was in 1965, when it sold 2.4 million...
...President completes a year in office, only one-fourth of his allotted term. The impact on Reagan of this first year is subtle, hard to detect by even those close to him. He tells more jokes than he used to, perhaps as a diversion from grim dilemmas and grimmer decisions. His infrequent secret moments may have lower depths than before...
...year later, RCA's financial prospects appear, if anything, grimmer still. The company's once strong NBC television network remains a distant third in the ratings, behind both ABC and CBS. Meanwhile, the firm's SelectaVision video disc player units for home viewing of prerecorded video entertainment have so far failed to catch on with consumers. In addition, earnings in other operating divisions have continued to decline. One result is that overall corporate red ink in the third quarter of 1981 hit $109.3 million, the worst quarterly performance by the company since...
...there was some grimmer news too. Benjamin Aaron, the surgeon who removed the bullet at George Washington University Hospital, disclosed last week that the President had been losing blood so rapidly right after the shooting outside the Washington Hilton that he might have died if he had been taken to the White House rather than to the hospital. Moreover, Aaron confirmed that the bullet had lodged only an inch from Reagan's heart. That report had specifically been denied at the time by Hospital Spokesman Dennis O'Leary, who placed the bullet "several inches" away from the heart...