Word: grimmer
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...outlook is even grimmer for the region's airlines. Taiwan's biggest carriers, Eva Air and China Airlines, each estimate a 15% drop in revenue for September; similar results are likely for all the other airlines. Insurance providers, meanwhile, are demanding higher premiums and placing low limits on war and terrorism coverage. As a result, governments have had to funnel cash to their flag carriers to keep them in the air. Seoul is letting Korean Air and Asiana Airlines pass on a $1.25 per passenger war-risk premium and has given the two carriers $2.5 million and $1.4 million, respectively...
Screenwriter Neil Labute first won attention for his fierce dissection of the battle of the sexes in films like In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors. He displayed an even grimmer view of human nature, along with some pretty fine writing, in his 1999 play Bash, a series of monologues that reveal the depravity lurking beneath the surface of ordinary lives. So the rave reviews that greeted his new play The Shape of Things when it premiered in June at London's Almeida Theatre can't help making a serious theatergoer's heart race. The drama, about...
...Porpoise Song," the failed single from "Head," and Nesmith's contributions. It also features a live cut, "Circle Sky," which lays to rest any doubts about their viability in concert. Nesmith's nasal vocals nothwithstanding, his efforts are about the only redeeming feature of the final disc, a somewhat grimmer prospect that includes late-'60s meanderings, some truly naff Davy Jones treacle, and more of Mickey Dolenz' inane flights of fancy than any sentient being should be forced to endure - along with some ill-advised harder rock material from their various latter-day incarnations...
Other studies paint a grimmer picture. The National Association of Women Business Owners puts the number of lost jobs nationally at 39 per small business over the past five years. It found that to prepare for the estate tax, half of all small businesses pay for insurance, 40% forgo investment, 40% plan to sell all or part of the business and 33% plan to incur debt--all choices that hurt the economy...
...education, health care and the environment," said the Vice President. "But saying it does not make it so. If he's a reformer, where are the results?" Bush brags about his record as Governor, promising the same success for the entire country, but Gore is pointing to a much grimmer Texas. On health care, which Bush largely ignored during his five years in office, Gore notes that the ranks of uninsured poor have increased during the Governor's tenure and that Bush tried to restrict the number of children covered by government-funded health insurance. In a befuddling reversal...