Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wasn't so long ago that tourists tried their best to avoid troubled Sri Lanka. Tour operators still remember the grim conditions of more than a decade ago when constant terrorist attacks led to wholesale cancellations. Less than two years ago, separatist guerrillas attacked the visitorpacked international airport?blowing up half of all the national carrier's aircraft and killing 17 people. Asia offered other, safer sun-kissed destinations; travelers disparaged Sri Lanka as "the poor man's Bali...
...with empty seats proliferating in computer science classes, the job prospects for teaching fellows—if not the students—remain grim...
...sheer scariness, the most grim talk came from Raymond Zilinskas, an expert in bioterrorism at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. In chilling detail, he described the efforts of Soviet scientists at the height of the Cold War to develop lethal germs, such as variations of anthrax and the smallpox virus, that could be carried to targets almost anywhere on Earth by ballistic missile. While these programs have presumably long since been cancelled, he foresaw no real defense against such bioweapons, other than stronger international conventions. That's something the Bush administration has resolutely opposed, he said...
...Kirby’s vision was accompanied by the grim reality that while the Faculty’s current financial situation is sound, serious efforts to curb spending will be necessary to keep the budget balanced...
...other end of the square, at the exit gates, the marchers break out of formation and, plainly relieved, drop the expressions of grim determination. Out-of-towners sprint towards the buses that will take them home. Tikritis hang back, catch up with friends for a chat...