Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Final Four isn't a magic pill that will make Detroit all better. But still, it is at least a temporary boost, especially in these grim times. "This economic injection is real and important," says Rodney Fort, a University of Michigan economist who also specializes in sports. "It's just not permanent." Beyond dollars, we shouldn't discount the intangible perks a major sports event delivers to a city. Detroit families can discuss the big game instead of the plant closing, maybe catch a free concert downtown. And though Michigan State's run may cost the state some extra cash...
...bitterness of Jenin's grim history rebounded on Younis' bridge-building effort. Fatah commander Zubeidi told TIME that the focus of the hostility against Younis was the short presentation on the Holocaust that she delivered to her musicians during the bus ride to Tel Aviv. "She should have been telling them about the current holocaust that the Israelis have been inflicting on the Palestinians for the past 60 years," Zubeidi said. He ordered the conductor out of Jenin, he explained, because of "threats" by "angry Palestinians", including some of the musicians' parents...
...Rubenstein didn't deny that easy credit also boosted profits. And at the Buyouts East conference in New York City in late March, I heard another industry veteran, George Siguler of the firm Siguler Guff & Co., paint a grim picture of private-equity returns in a deleveraging and struggling economy. "The available universe of companies that buyouts can buy is essentially mediocre companies, and mediocre companies are going to have a much tougher time," he said...
...hospital doctors as he refuses all food and gradually surrenders his body. McQueen, much like Sands, has a single and purposeful intention from which he never strays. Refusing to either condemn or glorify the IRA, the director focuses solely on the physicality of the prisoners’ grim undertaking. In this approach, “Hunger” bravely reveals the visceral underbelly of a well-known event in English and Irish history. McQueen illustrates with profound artistry the eerie quiet of a hunger strike and the severe calm with which Sands chooses to die. The result is a brutal...
...audience, sending a sudden shock through her Secret Service detail. The embraces did not seem awkward or forced; Michelle was simply celebrating the young talent around her and her newfound ability to inspire others. This is her new role, it seems, a balance to her husband's grim and sober task. "Nothing in my life's path would have predicted that I would be standing here," she told the girls. "I am an example of what is possible when girls, from the very beginning of their lives, are loved and nurtured by the people around them...