Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...parking ticket ..." The Sportster line is expected to account for a larger share of Harley-Davidson's sales this year - though still less than 25% of the total. (The company notes that there is still a waiting list for the new $29,000 Tri-Glide Ultra Classic despite the grim economy...
...projected operating earnings for S&P 500 companies to $58. It had been expecting $70 per share. The firm now expects overall operating earnings for the S&P 500 to fall 34% in 2009. In lowering its estimate, Credit Suisse analysts added a note of caution to the grim forecast: "We worry that while financial earnings have already seen considerable weakness, non-financial earnings have further to fall." Faced with such pessimism, the S&P finished Tuesday's session at 789, below the 800 'technical support" level that analysts feel was critical to maintaining investor confidence...
...firm believer in the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates' grim assessment last month of what lies in store for the U.S. might have made you shudder. "If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of Central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose, because nobody in the world has that kind of time, patience and money, to be honest," he said...
...common in the West to read about African lives in grim statistical terms, so we've become inured to these huge numbers of deaths. Making matters worse, the conflict in Congo is often seen as a hopelessly byzantine African tribal war, encouraging the damning notion that nothing will ever change. This, of course, creates a sense of hopelessness - and nothing cuts down on humanitarian, foreign and development assistance so much as the jaded diminution of hope. The nation most in need of investment gets the least by the cruel logic that it is the most broken. It is a self...
...After being cut from the varsity squad his freshman fall, Duncan embarked on a campaign to bring his game to a new level. He became captain of the Junior Varsity team and devoted the following summer to training. “I rarely saw him so grim and determined,” Owen remembers, “as a younger brother I was watching him like ‘wow.’ I mean, he just played basketball all the time...