Word: grimness
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...Despite their grim circumstances, many foreign inmates use their time inside to network, plotting future runs with other drug traffickers. "It's not good for someone who wants to think about stopping," a prisoner said. According to foreign inmates at the Los Teques prisons, a kilo of cocaine bought for $2,000 in South America can fetch around $25,000 in Europe - some prisoners were paid $4,000 for every kilo they carried, and could cart 10-12 kilos on any given trip. The pay scale makes it a tough profession to quit, even for middle-class twenty-somethings from...
...charisma and seeming amateurism. She may ultimately be a more attractive personality than the sometimes abrasive Sarkozy, but that is beside the point. The prospect of Royal in l’Elysée—the Parisian residence of the French president—portends a grim economic and social future for France. Whatever her personal qualities, Royal simply will not break radically enough with the failing French status...
...that the President's most important job is giving inspirational speeches - the main talent shown by both of these icons and by both of Kristol's presumptive successors - is a damned fool. David P. Vernon, TUCSON, ARIZONA, U.S. Tense Times at the Border The article on Talibanistan highlighted the grim realities faced by the people in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan [April 2]. Every possible effort should be made to pacify negative elements there. This requires coordinated efforts by locals, the Afghan and Pakistani governments and coalition forces. Even so, it is mind boggling that so much blame...
...unsettling notion that Congress” can interfere with personal medical decisions. Yet, in the same breath, the Windy City daily conceded the “admittedly unsettling aspect of partial-birth abortions” and confessed that “any kind of abortion procedure can be grim...
...ability to ease its dependence on U.S. funds - since no international oil company can begin work without it. Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki wants a vote in parliament by the end of May. But talks in Dubai last week left even one of the law's authors grim about its prospects. "I can assure you the law will have a very rough ride in parliament," says Tariq Shafiq, an Iraqi petroleum consultant in London after the Dubai meeting. "I expect at least 30 to 50% objection." The new Sunni oil potential adds another huge and volatile element to the talks...