Word: hopelessness
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...cannot be denied that the problems which had their origin in the historic Anti-Semitism of Europe and the resulting Holocaust have been solved at the expense of the Palestinian population. The total number of refugees is in the many millions. The refugee camps are places of hopeless squalor where deep resentments fester among a doomed people with no future. They have been left there for the last 50 years to stew in their fury by governments local and far away, large and small, with little cynical regard for their lot. The massacres in the regfugee camps...
...magazine in which he pondered whether the serious novel could survive in a culture consumed by television, movies and the Web. "Where to find the energy," he asked, "to engage with a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?" It seemed hopeless to think of the novel as a medium that would change the world. The world wasn't paying that kind of attention. But Franzen refused to give up entirely. Better, as he says now, "to think of fiction as a way of entertaining people who really like to read...
Blame this predicament on Wall Street's bond traders, a hopelessly sullen bunch bent on blocking a recovery. They are the ones keeping long-term rates high. The traders, not Greenspan, set rates by bidding bond prices up and down on the open market, moving yields in synch with their world view. That view for much of this year has been that things aren't getting any worse. See what I mean by hopeless? Last week, outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas reported that layoffs announced in July hit an eight-year high. Retail sales are falling off a cliff...
...necessarily have cut and dried definitions. We just look for names to call things by. We do know that it's an incredibly desperate act to kill your own children. And this is speculation, of course, but an act like that probably means Yates felt absolutely helpless and hopeless, and didn?t feel she could get help...
Then just this year researchers at Sloan-Kettering showed that the drug could dramatically boost the effectiveness of standard colorectal-cancer chemotherapy, shrinking tumors in more than a fifth of otherwise hopeless cases. Says Sloan-Kettering's Saltz: "The fact that we got a 20% response rate is staggering." What is happening, he surmises, is that the growth-factor inhibitor weakens the tumor enough for chemotherapy to finish...