Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sound grim? Maybe, but in corporate boardrooms nowadays, patience is on back order. Firing your CEO used to be the last resort, but more and more it seems like the first. McGinn's departure made him just another casualty in the ranks of ceos ousted in the past year--including Gillette's Michael Hawley (also canned last week), British Airways' Robert Ayling and Xerox's Rick Thoman. And the list is growing. The number of CEO departures went from just 46 last September to 103 this September, according to a study by the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The number...
...buildings, phalansteries and other social-idealist architecture in the 19th century stretch of this show. They resemble prisons and nunneries because they were prisons and nunneries, the difference being that the prisons meant to keep sinners in, whereas the Utopian buildings aimed to keep them out. But the same grim coerciveness suffused both, as we know from their ultimate state forms in the 20th century: Nazism and communism...
...story painted a grim picture of Mallincrockdt Laboratory, a place where cold-hearted, whip-cracking advisors stood over graduate students whose every failed experiment was a life or death matter...
...landed at dawn outside the capital, Pyongyang, and taxied toward the grim concrete terminal - a single building, definitely no duty free - as peasants stared from embankments above drainage ditches. A few wheeled bikes as if on their way to work, others merely glanced past the electrified fence surrounding the airport at the jet emblazoned with the words United States of America - a name they had only heard in conjunction with words like "imperialist" and "colonialist...
...Thursday, the Associated Press, which managed to scrounge up a summary of the as yet unreleased study, outlined the distinguished scientists' grim prediction in no uncertain terms: If greenhouse gases continue to trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, we can expect average global temperatures to rise between 2.7 degrees and 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. That kind of increase, scientists contend, means cataclysmic changes in our environment: Think melting of the polar ice caps, flooding and drought...