Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...situation in Washington, D.C. was equally grim as the Pentagon resumed operations in a still-smoldering building...
...grim numbers...
...Early Tuesday morning, American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 were hijacked shortly after takeoff from Boston, flown off course and into the World Trade Center towers, causing a series of spectacular explosions which eventually collapsed both buildings. Logan does not stand alone in the grim spotlight - two other flights were also hijacked after taking departing Newark and Dulles; an estimated 266 people died on those four planes - but as the origin airport of two of the four doomed flights, scrutiny of the Boston airport was intense...
Monday, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the grim results of a three-year study of children under 18 living in the U.S. They found that roughly 400,000 children, or one in 100, are victims of commercial sexual exploitation...
...August monthly unemployment rate practically exploded to 4.9 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday, as all non-farm employers cut 113,000 jobs from their payrolls for the month. Manufacturing, as usual, led the way with 141,000 job cuts all by itself, bring the sector?s grim total to the 1 million mark over the past 12 months. And Wall Street, already in its traditional-of-late Friday short-selling mode, was clearly not in any condition to hear more scary numbers: Both the Dow and NASDAQ sold on the pre-bell news and didn?t slow down until...