Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grim dispatches have come one after another, like casualty reports from the front lines. First the Washington Star announced it was closing. A few days later, the Philadelphia Bulletin gave its unions until this week to accept $5 million in contract concessions; otherwise it, too, would shut down. Now the New York Daily News has announced that its year-old afternoon paper, Tonight, will stop publication on Aug. 28. Thus was written the latest chapter in a two-decade-old story of failure in the afternoon, this time with the loss of 320 jobs on the nation's largest...
Over lunch, Rouse expands on his philosophy of urban development: "We have lived so long with grim, congested, worn-out inner cities and sprawling, cluttered outer cities, that we have subconsciously come to accept them as inevitable and unavoidable. Deep down in our national heart is a lack of conviction that cities can be beautiful, humane, and truly responsive to the needs and yearnings of our people...
...entrenched Government had become fearful of action, always alarmed by the thought of alienating supporters and by the possibility of failure. Reagan has so far not been intimidated by these specters. He was clearly not troubled by them last week, when he emerged from the Oval Office, strode grim-faced to the microphones in the Rose Garden and confronted the striking air controllers with an intensity not seen around those premises since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. There was a certain grave exhilaration in the moment for Reagan and his men. Seeking an end to the crisis...
...resisted appeals for scientific studies, and even today have never passed a basic compensation law for A-bomb victims. Yet through a variety of techniques-autopsies, statistical studies and radiation experiments-Japanese as well as American and European scientists have pieced together the story of the attacks and their grim consequences...
...picture is almost as grim when it comes to housing starts, the point where men, materials and money combine to build a house. In June, starts were running at an annual level of slightly more than 1 million, less than half the record rate of 2.5 million set in January 1972. Further depressing the market is the growing inventory of unsold completed homes, enough for 9.3 months of sales at the current pace. This is second only to the record backlog of 12.4 months in April 1980. Sluggish starts have idled construction crews, slowed demand for everything from roofing nails...