Word: grimness
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...market mood on June 15 was further darkened by newly released data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The bank's Empire State Manufacturing Survey showed a sharp decline for May, reflecting further weakness in new orders. That news came on the heels of grim tidings from the head of the International Monetary Fund, which noted on June 15 that the worst phase of the global recession may be yet to come...
...detail how destructive it was to boycott elections. I wrote about the day I was led off to a police van, my baby in tow, because a teenage policewoman considered my sleeves too short. This sort of experience spurred my own desire to vote, to try to change the grim, Talibanesque country Iran had become under Ahmadinejad...
...Read "Medvedev's Grim View of Russia's Economy...
...Peshawar policeman on the scene, the driver "drove speedily to the left side of the hotel, where there was a car park near the kitchen and the laundry. He stopped there and blew up the vehicle." The attackers' vehicle was vaporized, he adds. In scenes that revive grim memories of last September's attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad (the hotels have the same owner), nearby cars have been crushed and mangled. Then as now, the final moments before the bombing are revealed in CCTV footage shot by cameras mounted around the hotel compound. The brief clip shows...
...cared about anything," says Kim, who was finally released. The camps' pervasive sense of hopelessness is a common theme woven through many defectors' accounts, says Peters. "Any sense of justice is completely absent," he says. "People often don't even know what their crime is. It is really grim stuff...