Word: pessimistically
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...Pessimist: Look at the Stock Exchange. Set alongside today's prosperity and today's profits, the present prices of ... stocks are just plain silly. If stocks were really cheap, the men who know would bid them...
Flip a Coin. As puzzled at the end of his tour as at the beginning, Economist Crowther said "almost every piece of evidence can be interpreted either way." He illustrated this bothersome ambivalence with an imaginary debate between a Pessimist and an Optimist. Samples...
...Pessimist: A nine-year upward movement is quite without parallel in American economic history. It must be near...
...Pessimist: There are signs of a decline in consumer demand already. . . . Several industries are being pushed in the red by higher costs. . . . This sort of thing might easily start a general downward move...
...Soviet puppets capture Western Europe, "I would become a pessimist with regard to avoiding World War Ill," President Conant told the Boston Rotary Club yesterday. "We must therefore do all in our power to see that the 16 nations of the European plan preserve an economy which will keep immune from the virus of the Soviet Philosophy...