Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lately there has been much grim news out of Great Britain. The highest unemployment figures (around 12%) since the Depression, all-out street fighting in the inner cities. Suddenly, within and without, everyone needed reminding: not only of past glories but of future possibilities. And what better reminder than a wedding-showmanship and statesmanship in high style? The whole country is invited; the world can look on. The monarchy is seen, resplendent, as what the British have long insisted that it has become: an extended, and exalted, surrogate family. "The royal scene is simply a presentation of ourselves behaving well...
...parasites, got a long and polite hearing from Ted Koppel on ABC. Glimpses of cockney women cooing about Lady Di's charms were offset by skinheads as indifferent to the wedding as to anything else. ABC intermixed its prattle of gowns and rehearsals with pictures of grim unemployment lines in what it captioned "The Other Britain." Britain's other big story NBC'S Tom Brokaw, looking as preppie-eager...
Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski, a Soviet-trained army general, had somberly described that reality the day before the congress adjourned. Clad as usual in full military uniform, standing ramrod-straight at the lectern, he read out a grim check list of Poland's woes: increasing consumer shortages, falling production, a crushing foreign debt, renewed strike threats. Alluding to possible unrest, and citing the party's "trust in the army," the general turned politician implied a willingness to suppress future disorders with military force...
...Star's 1,427 employees were shocked by the prospective death of the paper they had struggled so valiantly to save. Those arriving at work early last Thursday were given the grim news by their supervisors; others heard it on their car radios or read it in a black-bordered announcement on the Star's front page. Said Sports Columnist Morris Siegel, 61, whose 19th anniversary with the paper coincides with its closing: "For once we beat the Post on the big story-damn it to hell." Editor Murray Gart (who had observed earlier...
Just as the high rates crimp the Government, so too do they squeeze businesses. Customers have less to spend, company overhead goes up and profits disappear. In recent months, that grim pattern has become a fact of life for more and more businesses. The gathering retrenchment is an important reason that practically every major indicator of future economic activity, from orders for machine tools by businesses to the issuance of construction permits for new homes, is now flat or pointing down...