Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...smuggle in ground coffee in their suitcases, my life in China was positively luxurious: I sipped lattes at Starbucks and collected tips on where to buy the best pesto in Shanghai. But every few months, the Qixia men would call with an update, reminding me of some of the grim realities beyond China's caf?s and marble-lined lobbies. Two more village chiefs have been beaten up, they would tell me, one so badly that his arm dangles like a piece of string...
...year ago, Shawn Sturgill's educational prognosis was grim. He was one of the main subjects of TIME's April 2006 cover story on America's epidemic of high school dropouts, which examined the lives of those who had left school or were on the cusp of leaving in Shelbyville, Ind. When I first met Shawn, 18, most of his friends had already dropped out, and he himself was so far behind on credits that he had to shuttle between regular classes and a credit recovery program that felt a bit like detention. Not only was he was unable...
...Thank you for letting us hear what Kristol had to say about the situation in Iraq. The proposed troop surge probably doesn't have the "good chance of success" that he claims, but it seems indubitable that American withdrawal would lead to a very grim remodeling of the Middle East. Unfortunately, all of our options now are bad; the only thing certain is that it would have been much better not to have invaded Iraq at all - something Kristol is not likely to point out, as no other journalist in America is more responsible than...
...want to open up," explains Saeda. Analysts fear the growing outrage at the actions of the security services against ordinary citizens could provide the spark that ignites a rebellion in a country where two thirds of the population of 74 million are young people enduring economic strife, grim employment prospects and a bleak future even as the wealthy minority appear to grow richer amid tales of corruption and exploitation of public resources...
...This long passage will doubtless astound the American audience, since director Andrei Kravchuck, in his first feature, is unblinking in his portrait of ordinary life in the former Soviet Union. The landscape is uniformly grim and tumbledown, most of the citizens of have honed their survival skills to a nastily jagged edge. At no point does little Vanya eat a meal or walk down a street that would meet even the most minimal nutritional or aesthetic standards of even the poorest American child...