Word: grimness
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...numbers are grim. For the 500,000 workers laid off since January, the average job search has stretched to a 19-year high of nearly five months--about twice the duration of the typical severance package. According to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 17% of those who do find work--nearly double the historical percentage--are settling for less pay. The net result of the various pressures on pay: in the first three months of 2003, median weekly earnings adjusted for inflation fell 1.5%, according to the U.S. Labor Department. That's the biggest drop since 1991, according to Jared...
...that same grim sense, last week was an action-packed one for the 4.3 million residents of this oil- and gas-rich province. Martial law was declared, removing the last pretense that Aceh has ever had a functioning civilian government. Renewed fighting erupted across the province, killing dozens. Jet fighters and U.S.-made Bronco OV-10 bombers screamed low over the palm trees while tanks and armored troop carriers rumbled through the countryside. More than 200 schools were burned to the ground within 36 hours, a wanton destruction of property blamed on GAM in the past, but which this time...
...There is no reason to doubt this grim prediction. The Indonesian government itself estimates that up to 200,000 Acehnese could be displaced by war, and has avowedly allocated $48 million to help them. The army promises that the boats disgorging soldiers and ammunition on Aceh's shores will also carry rice and other vital supplies for civilians. "I'll believe it when I see it," says one 45-year-old village leader, who is too afraid to give his name. We meet in the ramshackle sports hall of Lhokseumawe Polytechnic, where about a thousand refugees (700 of them children...
During their onslaught against the Republican Guard in the southern approaches to Baghdad, U.S. military commanders had grim words to describe what they were doing to the elite Iraqi forces. "I find it interesting when folks say we're softening them up," Air Force Lieut. General T. Michael Moseley, the air-war commander, said on April 5, the day the U.S. Army entered Baghdad. "We're not softening them up. We're killing them." Later on, in its assessment of the damage the U.S. had wrought, the Pentagon focused on devastation to the Guard's armor, concluding, for example, that...
...though this disease started in our country, we are behind everyone else in the world in trying to treat it." Other doctors from China's interior share his sense of betrayal and distrust. Asked about Shanxi's official death toll of just seven people, one doctor stationed outside a grim isolation ward stared at a TIME reporter and laughed: "Seven? That's complete fiction. Try maybe...