Word: grimness
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...finally whipped the U.S. military into post-Cold War shape. But now, as his department scrambles to pull together a quadrennial review of Pentagon strategy and budgets before its Sept. 30 deadline, Rumsfeld is widely assumed to be losing the fight. The signs are grim: For a week, the New York Times and the Washington Post have peppered their front pages with stories on Rumsfeld?s fading luster; Slate suggests starting a "Rumsfeld Death Watch," predicting his exit as DoD chief by February...
...year-old patient, hospitalized for quadruple-bypass surgery, had not moved or opened her eyes in days. Her relatives, grim-faced, stood around the bed. "They thought they had lost her," recalls Betty Walsh, a volunteer in the intensive-care unit at the UCLA Medical Center...
...author of the best-titled book of the '90s (We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda) has taken on another grim reconstruction: a 27-year-old murder. No car-chase thrills here, merely the gathering of string, knotted together to lasso the perpetrator, who is the guy everyone thought it was all along. Gourevitch is more interested in context, argot and character than plot. The book is the better...
...young toughs using bicycles as battering rams, breaks the line and surges through. By midnight, tens of thousands of cheering Chinese pour into the political epicenter of Beijing, defying orders to leave. Gangs of bare-chested teenagers climb lampposts to lead the masses in sloganeering. A potentially grim scene for any government. Yet every once in a lucky while, history repeats itself not as tragedy but as fun. Nearly everybody is waving a red flag. Chanters yell: "Long live China." And nobody is howling for the downfall of the Communist Party, as all did the last time ordinary Chinese crashed...
...tell, however, whether investors, deluged all morning with lousy earnings reports, looked at the bright side of Greenspan's comments or the dark: Inventory corrections are still going on, businesses are still blanching at the thought of capital investments, and the next six months are going to be very grim indeed. In any case, stocks slid on frenzied volume all morning - the Dow was off 100 and the NASDAQ 50 by noon. In times like these, when we're still waiting for those first six cuts to show up on the economic radar, bearishness from the Fed is not exactly...