Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Suppose that Palin somehow channels this grim and possibly gathering sense that America's institutions and authorities are no longer worthy of deference. Suppose that the Obama Administration's expansions of government don't prove as popular - or successful - as Democrats hope. Maybe then she will have picked the right time to declare in her resignation speech, "I've never believed that I, nor anyone else, needs a title" to be effective. In fact, a title might slow you down if your message is that our nation's leaders are so deeply and abidingly inadequate that the only appropriate attitude...
...Reaper, Grim • continuing insatiability of for celebrity blood claims Karl Malden, • and Harve Presnell, • and Fred Travelena, • and Billy Mays, • and Gale Storm, • and Sky Saxon, whose band The Seeds, had the great song "Pushin' Too Hard...
When times are tough, the old business adage goes, it's important not to look desperate. And, what with declining readership, loss of ad revenue and an increasingly crowded field of competitors, things are deeply grim for newspapers. Which only made the Washington Post's new revenue-generating idea even more mystifying. The wording on an invitation it sent out, as first reported on Politico, offers business executives "an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth." That is, if the invitees pony up between $25,000 (to sponsor one dinner...
...among the lowest-priced homes. In May, sales of houses under $300,000 (for the D.C. suburbs, that's low-priced) jumped 41%, as compared to the same month last year. Sales of houses $300,000 and above, meanwhile, dropped by 26%. The super-high-end is particularly grim. At the rate houses worth more than $700,000 have been selling, it will take three-and-a-half years to get rid of the existing inventory. And that's not including new houses that come onto the market. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
Borowsky's findings, while grim, present an opportunity to interrupt that self-fulfilling cycle (and she also found that as teens grow up, their negative views don't always persist). In the long term, she says, more research is needed for a deeper understanding of teens' emotional lives. But in the short term, prevention may be as simple as encouraging teenagers to think about their futures and set goals going forward; families and communities should then support children in achieving them. (See pictures of teens and how they would vote...