As the government slashed its subsidies, the museum revealed its prediction earlier this year that visitor numbers would plummet by 25% because of its dramatically slimmed schedule of exhibitions – an announcement that was met with grim concern but little surprise.
WASHINGTON — There is a reason American military officers express grim concern over the tactics used by Iranian sailors last weekend: a classified, $250 million war game in which small, agile speedboats swarmed a naval convoy to inflict devastating damage on more powerful warships.
But behind the warm words lie grimmer concerns, the biggest being the entrenchment of terror networks in the al-Qaeda-held Sahel.Islamist fighters tied to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have ruled a big swathe of northern Mali since March, dividing the country in two.
The latest grim statistic concerns new unemployment insurance claims.
Concerns about Citigroup's management and its grim business prospects pummeled the bank's stock last week.
Most barriers cited by PTs (Group 2) were considered to be internal barriers beyond their control, although the lack of self-criticism expressed was remarkable, as has been pointed out by Grimmer-Somers concerning Australian physiotherapists [ 27].
It was a tragic addition to grim news this week concerning children and guns.
Rooted in the perennial allure of tax increment financing — a tool in which the city siphons all growth in tax revenues into special accounts to use for economic development — the story pits political and commercial interests and quality-of-life concerns against grim financial realities.
They begin at a time of idealism and innocence, when space was a new frontier and every school had a piano (in tune), and end in the present era of grim pragmatism, marked by concerns about poverty, drugs, homelessness and union work rules.
Asian equity markets mostly reverted to moving lower Thursday, with Japanese and Korean stocks falling on grim economic data and concerns about the health of the auto industry and mainland Chinese shares gaining on expectations that Beijing is set to do more to boost the country's slowing economy.
