Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...archdiocese in which Desmond's considerable ambitions lie. To its credit, True Confessions does not seek a tidy ending that will send the folks home happy, but rather explores the complication and ambiguities of this sordid situation; the message in this movie of all losers and no winners is grim indeed. But because of the weakness of its explication, that message loses the resonance it might have had in a better film...
...would be a devastating blow to an economy that is already on the verge of collapse. While the nation labors under a $27 billion foreign debt that is still rising, national income is expected to fall by 15% this year. The statistics for the first half of 1981 are grim: coal output fell by 22%; copper, 11%; refined oil, 19%; animal feed, 14%; cattle herds, 7%; swine herds, 13%; exports to the West, 21.5%. Says John Hardt, an economist for the Congressional Research Service: "The Polish economy is 'growing' negatively at a rate that is unprecedented in peacetime...
Reagan, dressed in his jodhpurs and $1000 riding boots, entered the cabinet room, where various advisers and cabinet officers were assembled, grim-faced, around the table. "I'm sorry about that plate, dear," Reagan said to his wife, who had followed him into the room...
...reasons for the Tory woes were obvious enough. The grim economic statistics showed no sign of the turnaround that was supposed to follow from Thatcher's austerity measures. Unemployment is now close to the 3 million mark, or 12.2% of the work force, the highest since the worst Depression years of the 1930s. Yet inflation, which last week jumped to 11.5%, has not yet been "wrung out" of the economy, and that was the chief aim of Thatcher's monetarism. North Sea oil revenues have suffered from the international oil glut, and much of the treasury...
Those waiting in line, mostly working women or elderly pensioners, stand grim-faced, speaking little and frequently checking the time. If they wait too long in the meat line, they may find no fresh bread, milk or cheese. Some shoppers solve this problem by having someone hold a place for them in one line while they scurry over to another shop and queue up for something else. That tactic has its risks. If the first line moves too fast, the shopper might find that he has lost his place when he gets back...